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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Adobe and KIllustrator
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-07-02 12:37:33
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On Monday 02 July 2001 15:18, Thomas Zander wrote:
> 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?

Kalle is looking into it.
But it's about "KDE" itself, not about every KDE program's name...

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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