Not me, I have a hackerspace.<div><br></div><div>I know people working on other spaces and have been calling them makerspaces and want to know if I should advise them to use some other term<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Al Jigong Billings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:albill@openbuddha.com" target="_blank">albill@openbuddha.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I'm sure you can use it as long as you don't mind DARPA funding and don't piss anyone off.
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<p style="color:#a0a0a8">On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Sean Bonner wrote:</p>
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<span><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;border-collapse:separate;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:Times;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px">Is O'Reilly laying claim to the "Makerspace" term now? What I mean is, if someone is setting up a space and has been calling it a Makerspace, should they think of a new term so as not to run afoul of trademarks and whatnot?</span></span></span>
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