On 9/6/05, DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and bookstore franchise called Amazon? > AutoZone and get away with it? > mom & pop grocery store called WAL*MART?
Yes. No. Uh-huh. Right. That way. Go on. The bridge. Okay. Really? > Buyer was forced to change its name by McGraw-Hill because the 900 lb. > gorilla publisher thought that someone might confuse /Byte Buyer/ with > /Byte Magazine/. To tell you the truth, the name confused me for a bit. Byte Magazine was already so well-established in my mind, that another magazine with Byte in the name made me make the association. > It's as simple as that. One either polices their trade or service mark > or they lose control of it. Okay. I believe you. > If you want to open a little market on your corner called 7-11, you'll > pay Southland Corporation a lot more money than Linus expects for people > hitching their carts to the Linux bandwagon. Money has nothing to do with it. > If you don't think this is fair then work to change the law. Okay. Will do. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
