Grabbing for the Python name, a hosting firm gets bitten  Filed
under  Who wouldn't want the sleek, muscular, menacing name
"Python"? A small British hosting company, POBox Hosting,
certainly did -- and decided it had the right to apply the
slithering appellation to its new cloud computing offering,
Python Cloud. POBox felt justified because its trading arm,
Veber, had inherited the domain from work done about a decade
ago.  That didn't sit well with the Python Software Foundation,
a community-backed nonprofit based in the United States, which
found itself in an escalating dispute with POBox over use of the
Python name. The foundation asked for help in establishing that
the Python trademark had been routinely used in Europe -- and a
legal dispute that might have been a regional sideshow in any
other industry became an international incident when the global
open source community came to the foundation's aid.  rest here