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Re: kdewebdev ???
by David on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @10:26

I hadn't heard of this:

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/02/1648243.shtml

They were f****** joking weren't they? The last I looked Illustrator was a word in a dictionary, and adequately described something that was able to 'illustrate'. So Adobe invented illustration - I'd like to see that played out in a court. I could understand it if Adobe had invented a non-dictionary name, so it should have been hard-cheese on Adobe for not being more inventive. It sounded like the lawyer here was just demanding 2500 euros for no reason whatsoever.

It is rather like Lindows. You cannot argue on the similarity of names. Lindows is not Windows, no matter how 'similar' or confusing that is (no law can ever get into charades 'sounds like' arguments) and Windows is a generic word in computing. KIllustrator is not Adobe Illustrator and illustrator is a generic term.

Please tell me this was some sort of bloody joke?

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Re: kdewebdev ???
by Eric Laffoon on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @12:19

Joke? Wake up and smell the coffee... I'm sure you'd agree with me that "Windows" is far to generic a term to be given trademark on and there is prior art going all the way back to Xerox Parc and beyond. Nobody in their right mind would have even tried, which is why it took the hubris of MS to do it.

Now that we agree on that, and interestingly Lindows may yet get the Windows trademark pulled in the US (last I heard) this is pulled from today's news...

http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2004031501026NWMSLL

As you can see Lindows has lost the trademark battle in Europe. I admire Robertson's moxie, but he took a risky path. Also, for those who think we in the US has a monopoly on stupidity I think the MobiliX case in German court where they ruled it infringed on the trademark of the Obilix, a French comic book character was the epitome of ridiculous, but that was finally overturned.

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-09-06-002-26-NW-CY-LL

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Re: kdewebdev ???
by David on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @12:50

Ah, of course. Perhaps I'm applying too much commone sense to the situation.

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Re: kdewebdev ???
by Kurt Pfeifle on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @13:46

> ...the MobiliX case in German court where they ruled <
> it infringed on the trademark of the Obilix, a French <
> comic book

The characters' name is "Obelix" (Ob*e*lix), which makes it even more different
from "Mob*i*lix"....

And I agree: the only monopoly ever entirely ruled out is one stupidity ;-)

Cheers,
Kurt

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