Am 04. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Balbir Thomas so: > Yet another case of open source developers being harassed. Adobe lawyers > ask developer of killustrator to pay fines for using a name that abuses > their trade mark illustrator. Go read about it at slashdot , and then > give your feedback to Adobe. I already did. We can't let such harassment > go without being protested. If I were a conspiracy theorist I would see > a pattern here . While corporation are leagly portected to indulge in > some kinds of "negative advertising" as a "competitive stratergy" open > source developer are sued because the english language words are now > "trademarks".
Nothing new. In the 80's a New Yorker was sued for selling Hebrew Bookshelf or something. m$ said it infringed on their "bookshelf" series. It was software, so he lost ( or couldn't fight it, don't know which ). Try writing a "nutshell" book on something to do with computers and see what kind of messages you get from Tim O'Reilly ;-). He's even on our side and I still bet he'd sue. ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # A t-shirt a day keeps the noose (tie) away. - der.hans