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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Adobe and KIllustrator
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2001-07-02 13:18:23
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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 
> <moglen@columbia.edu> 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
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