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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: "Trash" trademark (Was Re: KDE 1.2-Preview: eyecandy.png)
From:       Lotzi Boloni <boloni () cs ! purdue ! edu>
Date:       1999-07-28 2:08:25
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  Well, they can trademark Thrash exactly like they can trademark Apple. 

  Although, as far as I know, in these cases they must show this
explicitly: like drag the file to Thrash (tm).

  Actually, I think that it is easy to check if they've trademarked it, or
not. There are a lot of other thinks like this:

  mouse --> proposed replacement: rat, hampster
  window --> door, balcony, ????
  button --> handle
  
  So, it was some discussion about a Latin translation of KDE?

  This think strikes me ridiculous. The trademark identifies the company:
it guarantees that your Puma shoes are made by Puma in Taiwan, and
protects the company from the other who name their shoes Poma (made in
Taiwan). 

  But Thrash is just a name, it will be translated to the corresponding
thing in German, French etc. This is not a mark, it is a name. I think
that the company lawyers in a number of cases are definitively just taking
shots in the dark, without having anything supporting their claims. 

  I would definitely agree to not provide MacOS, BeOS named themes, that
is capitalizing on their work and advertisement. But I think renaming
thrash is ridiculous. 

               Lotzi

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