Re: [tor-talk] http://torbrowser.sourceforge.net/

[SiNA Rabbani <sina@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been actively working with the Tor Project. When I saw the page
on sourceforge I thought oh, Tor has a new site, and I am not your
normal Tor user. I use it religiously.

Randolph, your page does confuse users with Tor's official site.

--SiNA

Nick Mathewson:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Randolph D. <rdohm321@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> As you already can see on the website, it is added (maybe done
>> later than you looked first):
>> 
>> "TorBrowser Source code is open source and not affiliated with
>> Tor, but simply use Tor. "Tor" and the "Onion Logo" are
>> registered trademarks of the Tor Project, Inc. Content on this
>> site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
>> License, unless otherwise noted."
>> 
>> this should remove any confusion.
> 
> Really? I kind of doubt it. The site's look and feel is just like 
> ours; the disclaimer is in tiny letters at the bottom of the page,
> and you are giving your program the same name to a program we
> release.
> 
> You are either trying to confuse your users or not.
> 
> If you are trying to confuse users, PLEASE STOP.  It is a wrong
> thing to do.
> 
> If you are not trying to confuse users, please don't pretend that 
> sticking a tiny disclaimer at the bottom of the page is actually
> going to unconfuse people.  Please don't pretend that people are
> going to think that a project called "TorBrowser" is different from
> the Tor project called "TorBrowser".  Please don't pretend that
> giving your site the same look and feel as ours is not going to
> confuse people. You aren't silly enough to believe any of those
> things, and neither are we.
> 

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