Insert appropriate Prince (or the artist formerly referred to as Prince)
joke here.
:-)
Cheers
V
From: michael nemeth [mailto:user-609d3fab5b2d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2008 11:53 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Don't make the pie higher!
anyone suggest HNh (Hobbit is not hobbit) to follow GNU (gnu not unix) ?
Josh Luthman wrote:
Flushed Fish has my vote.
Josh Luthman
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Gary Baluha
<user-ae3e15c22de1@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Galen Johnson
<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]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 10:32 AM
To: 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> 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
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