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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 1.2-Preview: eyecandy.png
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       1999-07-28 7:12:04
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On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Leon Widdershoven wrote:
[...]
> Sorry, but you CAN trademark words, sentences and parts thereof. That's 
> really no problem. The problem is that people really do it.
> 
> You can of course not forbid that people use those words, you can only 
> sue people who use it to offer a service (use it as the important part
> in an own slogan, as the name of a product or service etc).
> 
> We use it as a service, and especially since Apples wastebasket and the
> KDE wastebasket are so alike, KDE would lose the case.

How about adding an entry to kdewizard that allows to name the
trashcan?  ;-)

I know, this is for Kde-2.x, but nevertheless it would be a nice solution
then.

--Stefan

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