You tend to allude in your article that stronger trademark protection will affect open source adversely. But I do not think so. The trend toward stronger trademark protection will have a positive affect open source and the Web in the long run in my view.
I love your analysis of this ugly development. As you rightly stated âvery nature of this evolution is going to make it a difficult one to track and stopâ? because those creeps are not going to stop. They will soon find away to break through any defensive front against the nefarious activities
Good that Defensio is doing a good job for you. Keep us posted on how it holds out. Another alternative I found is to run a script that'll set old stories with their comments/trackback closed (there are several of these around).