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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 1.2-Preview: eyecandy.png
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date:       1999-07-29 14:31:11
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"José Carlos Santos Ruiz" wrote:
> 
> El Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Leon Widdershoven escribió:
> >Stephan Kulow wrote:
> >>
> >> Ming Poon wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi folks,
> >> >
> >> > I was just informed by our UI design team that the word 'Trash' and the
> >> > Trash icon are trademarks of the Apple Macontish and cannot be used. As
> >> > Apple can go after us (Corel) legally, we will be changing some of the
> >> > problematic icons in our version of KDE that may have certain legal
> >> > implications. For the Trash, we are thinking of using the word Dumpster
> >> > and a dark green Dumpster icon. Any thought on this icon and stupid
> >> > trademark issues. Thanks.
> >> >
> >> You can trademark words? I don't think so. And the icon is not even
> >> borrowed
> >> from Apple. The only thing the can have trademarked is the service, but
> >> then it doesn't help you to call it different.
> >>
> >> Greetings, Stephan
> >
> >Sorry, but you CAN trademark words, sentences and parts thereof. That's
> >really no problem. The problem is that people really do it.
> >
>         Yes, i.e. Intell start calling to their processors "pentium", and not
> i586 because of any other can call to their processors 586. Don't you remember
> there war an i486, an AMD 486, etc, but there is only one Pentium, one Pentium
> II...?
> 
Hmm, what does Pentium mean in english? I doubt you can trademark
"processor"

Greetings, Stephan

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