I suggest that one of the KDE developers who works at SuSE or Mandrake (or 
Redhat?) will show the email to the managment - and since those companies 
hire lawyers - I'm sure that this could be taken care in no time (regarding 
the fee)...

Any developer to volunteer?

Hetz

On Monday 02 July 2001 15:12, aleXXX wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is forwarded from koffice-devel, it seems Kai Uwe Settler has some
> problems.... :-(
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> Hi,
> I have just received a dissuasion from an Adobe lawyer that the name
> "KIllustrator" would violate Adobe's trademark and I should pay 2500
> euro. So, I have closed the website at the moment. Could somebody with
> access to koffice.org remove all information about and links to Killu,
> please?
> Thanks,
> Kai
>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> Subject: Re: Adobe and KIllustrator
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:58:40 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Kai-Uwe Sattler <kus@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
> To: koffice-devel@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
>
> [... snipped some talk about renaming killu...]
>
> For me the name is not the problem - it's more the dissuasion fee :-(
> Is there anybody with experiences in such a case ?
> Kai
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