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Re: kdewebdev ???
by Eric Laffoon on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @19:59

kdewebdev is our CVS module. If someone really wants to sue us to change the name on that I think I would probably start a legal fund and countersue for damages. ;-) There is a certain point where things get overly ridiculous and as my mom used to say there are some people it is not worth getting angry if they have a long memory and a crazy streak.

Law suits can be a form of harassment. However the question is who suffers more. Generally FLOSS developers consider that they don't have the resources and roll over. If they are likely to lose they may as well. However if they are in the right that's another story. It is now possible to buy legal insurance for a project, something I've been considering and note that in the wake of SCO large legal funds have been set up to protect developers. Again, I believe we have well over a million users. My thinking is this... if someone were to bring a totally harassing law suit with no merit why roll over? Make it a referendum for users. In my opinion, the first time some stupid company finds out that an open source project has a larger legal fund then they do it will be the last frivolous lawsuit against an FLOSS project for some time.

The bottom line is nobody wants more trouble than they can handle. That and I'm crazy and don't roll over real easy. Killustrator is probably not a fight a developer could predictably win however irritating as there is legal precedent for Adobe. kdewebdev is another matter. ;-)

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Re: kdewebdev ???
by mi on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @10:32

I agree with you with all my heart.
It was this sentence from the link from your name in the above news:
<i> lead what is now the kdewebdev project, which consists of Quanta+, Kommander and other web development tools.</i>
which made me think that it was a new name to the whole bunch of apps and that it was going to be pushed up front. A little bit like kontact is for kmail and knotes and all.
Yes, suing for a cvs name would be really crazy.

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