From koffice-devel Mon Jul 02 13:18:23 2001 From: Thomas Zander Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 13:18:23 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Adobe and KIllustrator X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=99408005105556 On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:57:17AM -0400, dep wrote: > 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. > -- Well, this is the reason Linus trademarked Linux. What are the possebilities/cost of registring a trademark? -- Thomas Zander zander@earthling.net The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new _______________________________________________ Koffice-devel mailing list Koffice-devel@master.kde.org http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel