Nagios Trademark Statement

“Nagios Enterprises posted a blogpost at their community site,
accusing me, Julian Hein the owner and managing director of NETWAYS
to have taken away their Nagios trademark and that they want it
back. While some of the facts in the blogpost are true, some
assumptions are not, some are taken out of their context and some
may be just a result of misunderstandings. At first I did not want
to react, but the blogpost and the Twitter messages make us look
very bad. So I would like to explain the events that lead to the
problem from our point of view. I would prefere to comment on this
directly in the Nagios Community Blog, but I could not register an
account. Additionally our IP addresses have been blocked so I
cannot access the site from our office. So I think a real
discussion in the blog is unwanted.

“First of all, I have signed all the transfer papers that I
received from Nagios Enterprises and sent them back. I had to
removed two lines from the text concerning liabilities where I have
no idea what they could mean to me. I’m not a lawyer, my main
language is German and I have no knowledge about US law. Of course
I left everything concerning a transfer intact, so I hope that will
settle the situation soon. See the document here.”

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