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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Adobe and KIllustrator
From:       Rolf Magnus <ramagnus () zvw ! de>
Date:       2001-07-03 10:38:08
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On Tuesday, 3. July 2001 07:05, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> How is Kivio a blatant rip-off?  Kivio and Visio aren't as similar as you
> think on the surface and I think it's one of the best naming accidents
> we've had happen, I had meant to call it something else and accidently
> spelled it Kivio.  had it been KVisio, then that would be different.

The problem is that it's a similar sounding word. And like killustrater 
sounds similar to illustrater, kivio sounds similar to visio. Why did it get 
the name? Because it sounds similar, I suppose. So Microsoft could do legal 
actions against it. 

There must be a decision if illustrater can be protected or not. The problem 
I see is that the name KIllustrater sounds like it was taken to show people 
the purpose of the program by similatity of the name (sounds similar to 
Illustrator, so It probably does something similar). The same goes with KWord 
and Kivio. 
KOffice might be different though, because "Office Suite" is a common word 
for a software collection that does what KOffice does and there aren't many 
office suites that don't have the word "office" it their names.

-- 
I'm an American, I believe in the American Way, I worry if the government
encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of
policy makers to understand the threat.
(Microsofts Windows operating-system chief Jim Allchin)
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