From koffice-devel Mon Jul 02 12:57:17 2001 From: dep Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 12:57:17 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Adobe and KIllustrator X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=99407842431174 On Monday 02 July 2001 07:29 am, David Faure wrote: | On Monday 02 July 2001 09:27, Kai-Uwe Sattler wrote: | > 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? | > | :(( F*c*ing trademarks. wait a minute here. if this is enforceable, then msft can drop by and order the renaming of kword, and somebody else can probably order the renaming of kmail, and so on, right down the line. it might be a very good idea to drop a note to a lawyer type -- Eben Moglen would be a good start, maybe, in that he's the FSF's general counsel and the FSF now claims that kde meets its purity standards -- to see if anything at all need be done. i suspect the proper response is to tell the adobe guy to go poop in his hat. -- dep there's more to history than what's in books; that's why it took so long to happen. _______________________________________________ Koffice-devel mailing list Koffice-devel@master.kde.org http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel