Behold the White Hot Rage of the Knitting Community

[akirlu]

I saw yesterday via Kate's post that the US Olympic Committee had gotten shirty with, of all things, the web-based knitting community, Ravelry and fired off a legal cease-and-desist mark protection notice for Ravelry's use of the term "Ravelympics" (...presumably as part of a comprehensive take-down of any entity using a name ending in -lympic,

Comments

[furzicle]

Is there a committee to regulate the blatant theft of the word 'knitizens"?

[don_fitch]

Probably not. The people I know who might think of themselves in that term are quite capable of taking care of things without any fukkin committee, thank you very much, and they have sufficient experience with The Real World to understand how useless "committees" usually are.

[akirlu]

Nope. Steal it if you have a good use for it. Blatantly or otherwise.

[carbonel]

In case you haven't seen it, here's the Yarn Harlot's take on the kerfuffle.