From koffice-devel Mon Jul 02 15:02:48 2001 From: Vadim Plessky Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 15:02:48 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Adobe and KIllustrator X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=99408616803741 On Monday 02 July 2001 13:14, Thomas Zander wrote: | On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:29:51PM +0200, 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 n= ame | > > "KIllustrator" would violate Adobe's trademark and I should pay 2= 500 | > > 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. | > | > What about renaming instead of removing ? | > That would be less work (all in one step instead of removing and th= en | > re-adding with a new name), and users wouldn't wonder where killu h= as | > gone ! veKtor sounds fine to me, although it might look too German = to | > some ;), Hmmmmmmm... | > www.vektor.com : Vektor - The World's Leading Language Solutions | > Company www.vektor-bass.de : Vektor-Germany Studio f?r Kontrab?sse | > Studio for Double http://www.denel.co.za/vektor/ : A divison of | > "Denel", who makes military products (ouch). | > | > Just how are people supposed to name their stuff, now that all name= s | > have been taken ? :( | | Well, its no problem to name a program something like vektor because = the | goals of the company and the software are completely different. | In the case of KIllustrator and Illustrator Adobe has a point, the na= me | is similar and the goal is the same. Well, not completely this is a case. Otherwise, Coca-Cola (The Real Thing (tm)) already bankcrupted Pepsi Co. Pepsi-Cola is quite similar to Coca-Cola (and it is not The Real Thing at= =20 all). Besides, there is a Hershey-Cola, god-knows-what-Cola, etc. "Illustrator" is a man (woman) which makes illustrations. (Graphic Artist= , in=20 general). Probably, Oxford Dictionary can describe it more correctly, th= at's=20 how I understand it.=20 Even I can name myself "illustrator" when I making illustrations. By the way, there is a Corel Draw. Do you think that naming Killu as "KDraw" will bring you problems from Co= rel? Com'on, no way! There is no way to trademark "generic" names. "Illustrator" is not "SONY" or "VAIO" (Sony's brand for computers). And i= t's=20 not a Volvo or Saab. I think Adobe can't claim any ownership about general name, which Illustr= ator=20 is "AS IS". =20 --=20 Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html Do you have Arial font installed? Just test it! http://kde2.newmail.ru/font_test_arial.html _______________________________________________ Koffice-devel mailing list Koffice-devel@master.kde.org http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel