Flushed Fish has my vote.
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--- Henry Spencer
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Gary Baluha <user-ae3e15c22de1@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-ae3e15c22de1@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Galen Johnson
<user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
I'm not saying they weren't very nice...I agree it could have
been handled in a much less friendly manner...lawyers never
cease to amuse me.
Of course, when we pick a new name, I'm going to have to
figure out a different name for The Shire to go with
it...maybe I'll call it "Live Dog" or "Undead Hamster" or
"Flushed Fish"... :-D
Hahah, "Undead Hamster"! That name immediately reminded me of the
"Hampster Dance"
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampster_Dance]
=G=
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid>]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 10:32 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Don't make the pie higher! (was: RE:
[hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will
happen)
In
<user-d062d12d4337@xymon.invalid
"Hobbit User in Richmond" <user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid>> writes:
On Mon, August 4, 2008 09:00, Galen Johnson wrote:
After reading the letters, it looked to me that as soon as
they found out
they couldn't pin anyone down to get a slice of the
ephemeral pie, they
decided that the name should be changed.
Well, as a PHB who's also a Linux lead, the way I read the
letters is that
as soon as they found out they couldn't pin anyone down to
commit to not
selling slices of their client's pie and not giving any more
of it away
than was already the case, they wanted a name change. I
thought the
attitude was quite refreshing after seeing decades worth of
threatening
cease-and-desist letters.
I agree. I think they have been treated me nicely; they could
have just
sent me a "stop-doing-this-or-we'll-sue-you-now" letter. They
didn't,
and in fact they have been generous to suggest a couple of
possible
name changes that I could do which would keep them happy.
Add to this that they actually knew what I was talking about,
when I
told them that Hobbit is an Open Source product, so there is
no money
involved.
They have a trademark to defend, and one of the rules of that
game is
that they MUST react when they become aware of possible
violations of
their trademark; if they don't, then they can forfeit their
ownership
of the trademark. So they have to do something, and I think
they handled
this nicely.
Sure - having to rename everythin IS annoying, but I should
have thought
about that when I first picked the name.
Regards,
Henrik