<div dir="ltr">Not sure why this grabbed my interest, but I did a little digging around the use of the term "Scouts," and found this page: <a href="http://histclo.com/youth/youth/org/sco/country/us/scoutus-abs.htm">http://histclo.com/youth/youth/org/sco/country/us/scoutus-abs.htm</a> (this interesting bits are in the "Litigation" section and just below.)<div>
<br></div><div>It seems that the claim does have some basis going back to the 19-teens, but that the House Judiciary Committee and courts emphasized things like the *intention* of creating confusion about the organizations (Boy Scouts of America vs. United States Boy Scout), the importance of the integrity of the *badges* awarded by the BSA, and the extensive public service provided (at least at the time) by the BSA's projects.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Whether any of those apply in this case, I don't know…but I'm skeptical.</div><div><br></div><div>Pete</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Pete Forsyth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peteforsyth@gmail.com" target="_blank">peteforsyth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">And here's a bit on that "congressional charter" part: <a href="http://enwp.org/Boy_Scouts_of_America#Federally_chartered_corporation" target="_blank">http://enwp.org/Boy_Scouts_of_America#Federally_chartered_corporation</a> The Wikipedia article mentions the exclusive use of the term "scout", but did not provide a citation. I just added a [citation needed] tag.<div>
<br></div><div>Interesting stuff.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Pete</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Anthony Di Franco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:di.franco@gmail.com" target="_blank">di.franco@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif">Here is the context, in case like me you were wondering, but didn't care to dig:<br>
<a href="https://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/08/20/boy-scouts-of-america-threatens-to-sue-hacker-scouts-over-name/" target="_blank">https://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/08/20/boy-scouts-of-america-threatens-to-sue-hacker-scouts-over-name/</a><br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Mitch Altman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com" target="_blank">maltman23@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">We really need to put pressure on these F*!&^#(&-ing A*!&^#(&-holes at the Boy Scouts of America. They really do not seem to care about the world we all inhabit, and need to be put in their place.<br>
<br>MAKE, Sparkfun, Adafruit are into pressuring the BSA. If we can get a bunch of hackerspaces to do the same, we will make an impact.<br> <br>"<font color="#800000">no matter what happens, how we all react to a group like the BSA will define "us" fighting and losing is ok, but i think you need to fight it all the way… think of a world where there are hacker scouts, learning sharing and it would all start with a shared victory together over an old oppressive scared group trying to get in the way of the future.</font>" -- Phil Torrone, of Adafruit<br>
<br>Here are just a few places to add some well-placed comments:<br>>>>>>> Boy Scouts Google+ page:<br>>>>>>> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BoyScoutsofAmerica/posts" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BoyScoutsofAmerica/posts</a><br>
>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Boy Scouts Facebook page:<br>>>>>>> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boy-Scouts-of-America/113441755297" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boy-Scouts-of-America/113441755297</a><br>
>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Bot Scouts on Twitter:<br>>>>>>> <a href="https://twitter.com/boyscouts" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/boyscouts</a><br>>>>>>> <br>
>>>>>> Boy Scouts on YouTube:<br>>>>>>> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/bsa100years" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/bsa100years</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Email:<br>
>>>>>> <a href="mailto:PR@scouting.org" target="_blank">PR@scouting.org</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> The official publication for the adult volunteers site:<br>>>>>>> <a href="http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/" target="_blank">http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org</a><br>
>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> On Twitter:<br>>>>>>> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/scouting" target="_blank">http://www.twitter.com/scouting</a><br>>>>>>> <br>
>>>>>> On Facebook:<br>
>>>>>> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/scoutingmagazine" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/scoutingmagazine</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Email:<br>>>>>>> <a href="mailto:scoutingmag@gmail.com" target="_blank">scoutingmag@gmail.com</a><br>
>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Boy's Life Magazine:<br>>>>>>> <a href="http://boyslife.org/" target="_blank">http://boyslife.org/</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> On Twitter:<br>
>>>>>> <a href="https://twitter.com/BoysLife" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/BoysLife</a><br>>>>>>> Email:<br>>>>>>> <a href="mailto:boyslife.mag@scouting.org" target="_blank">boyslife.mag@scouting.org</a><br>
<br>Best,<br>Mitch.<br> <br> </div></div>
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