Bruce Perens & Debian: swiping the Open Source trademark
When Bruce Perens, Ian Murdock, Tim Sailer and Eric Raymond founded the Open Source Initiative, they decided to take the Open Source trademark away from the Debian community.
Perens initially asked Ian Jackson to transfer it privately. Jackson raised the subject with the rest of the volunteers on the debian-private mailing list.
Thanks to the latest leaks from the Debian-Private (leaked) gossip list, you can now read the thread about how OSI snatched a trademark that was born out of and paid for by the work of the Debian community.