Python Software Foundation Reaches Settlement, Ends Trademark Dispute

What a pleasantly amicable settlement of what could have been a thorny issue. I get so used to people trying to abuse patents and trademarks I'm now shocked when they say "Oh, ok, I see what you mean, fine we'll do this differently."

Was this a financial settlement? If yea, how much did PSF had to pay? The post doesn't talk about it.

Well, that's some free advertising/exposure.<p>I don't believe they are in the hosting business and don't know what Python is. They're either idiots or at the contrary, quite clever. Had they gone through with it though, they might have suffered a bit of wrath from some anonymous pythonistas... I could see it happen. :-D

The wording "Python software language" from the PR kind of makes me think that their business folks do indeed not know what Python is.<p>Either way, great that this got settled pretty quickly :)

Can someone explain to me why anyone would want to sue the python foundation? I mean, maybe if the company was unrelated to programming... but a hosting company? Wouldn't they know?