<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Sean Bonner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean@seanbonner.com" target="_blank">sean@seanbonner.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Passing this on to the greater Hackerspace community to think about. A few things:<div>
<br></div><div>1 - The Boy Scouts have shown they don't give a fuck about public opinion so not sure this will make an impact</div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Your first point is simply wrong. <br><br></div>
<div>It is through public opinion and a changing tide of acceptance that BSA recently changed its policy on gay scouts. It's through public opinion that those who voted on proposed changes voted the way they did, to rescind that long standing ban. <br>
<br></div><div>To your larger point of them protecting their brand, I do not agree with what they're doing with this. It is odd how they choose to protect against some organizations and not others. If they're going to be protecting the brand identity against Hacker Scouts, I certainly hope they'll put the same effort into protecting it against newly founded organizations like the Scouts of St George and their ilk. I, for one, consider the "scout" moniker too generic for protection in the way BSA likes to protect it. <br>
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