Yeah. Well, now this really will get out of hand...
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Currently Head of Technology at NHS UK
Which is consistent with the remaining text and known literature.
Someone exposes code, FOS'ing it (apparently MIT), here comes "the internets", it likes what it sees, exposes to both forks and HN positive comments, along comes employee's manager and cuts the story short, IP issues and whatnot (for JS, really?!)...
The internets will either rename it; rewrite it, use it anyways and ignore the anonymous business, maybe keep the Nick name either associated/thanked or a part of it anyways...
Now the company can either get ready to start some bound-to-loose IP fight over this, which I'm sure has a great ca-ching sound on some poor manager's brain; along with zero chances. Or the business can capitalize on the positive feedback, maybe become a part of a greater good.
I don't get what's so complicated
If you look at the majority of governments in the world, there's only a moderate attention to things like education, health, culture, etc.. Unless it's actually on the basis of the country's history and focus or by popular demand/revolt.
This isn't limited to third world/authoritarian regimes. Those have cases where there's investment because the economy actually depends on these (i.e.: a country that's a usual vacation destination invest in culture, one that "imports health patients" invest in health, although education can usually be disregarded in any case).
Granted, there seems to be a bias in the child's comments, BUT that doesn't mean they are completely wrong; even if her explanation is.
Today's education fails on a number of fronts, you don't need to look at race (from teachers or pupils) to find the culprit (granted there are cases). I point to the failure of policy makers, the grand education system with it's various components and throw in a share of the blame to the parents and general public as well.
If you tell me AT&T is centralized because it's covering a country, or that you can call all your family and never leave AT&T's network, that doesn't mean it's centralized per-se, it might be centralized for it's own services, which makes sense for any company.
But it's still part of a decentralized network of communication providers, which use a protocol... A live one actually, kind of like what twitter could become a king node of (after all, the celebrities are there, right?).
Oh... I see what you meant, I might have misread that whole post!
If you need a bit more complexity, keeping with open source tools, http://www.redmine.org takes care of the job, easily. Plugins are a way to easily tweak it your way.
But falling for SaaS is easy, with http://trello.com, made by the guys at Fog Creek Software - which you might know already through the resounding name Joel Spolsky - is an awesome simple yet powerful tool, both for business and personal use.
The legal base (non-existing trademark, so therefore unclear - only based on previous usage) seems foggy and would have to be decided in court. So either you get into an out-of-court agreement, or go to civil court and stand your case.
If there's any interest in keeping the name, you should probably just contact a lawyer and clarify with him.
But if you don't care, to the point where you can just rename the repo and let the other guy have it (which I'm assuming is the whole point of the letter...)
My move would be to keep save your project to a new repo, and just leave and empty readme to keep the name in-use. Even if you don't reply a number of times, that lawyering up (at least to me) looks like a dick scare tactics move...
Well, as it turns out, people aren't really "stuck" with Mike Daisey, except for a non-refundable ticket that won't be a recurring sale. He lost all integrity and trust in his stories, regardless of how well he does tell them.
And I can assure you that the saying «There is no such thing as bad publicity» might apply to the dumb celebrities followers (with no due respect) but doesn't really apply to every field, especially when journalistic standards are expected.
My guess is that everyone knows and understands the mistake made by Mr Ira Glass and the Producers at This American Life was one of trust.
And the basic point here is, that I keep my full trust in Mr. Ira, This American Life's Producers and Chicago Public Radio, because humans can make mistakes (and in fact learn/correct/improve when they do so), but those that have principles and integrity know to recognize and correct any mistakes. So was the case here.
In regards to Mr. Mike Daisey, there's no trusting him ever again, unless he's telling unicorn stories.