This is infuriating news. When will companies understand that we're HELPING them and that we like their software. How can this be seen as a misuse of trademarked material?
It would be really cool if someone from the old MM could talk some sense into Adobe, because this is ridiculous. Scott -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Aral Balkan Sent: Fri 4/21/2006 8:09 AM To: Open Source Flash Mailing List Cc: Subject: Re: [osflash] on using the word "Flash" in your projects... Hi Geoff, This is just so wrong. You've created an amazingly useful tool that not only provides a fix for the Eolas issue but also provides a superior method of embedding SWFs inside HTML pages. Adobe's thank-you should not be to have their legal department contact you to change its name. If this is Adobe's new policy, I hope that there will be some guidelines posted to make their position public so we can all remove the word "Flash" from our various community sites and open source projects. I guess FlashAnt would become SwfAnt and OSFlash, OSSWF? Is SWF not a trademark too? What a royal waste of time and resources. Aral Geoff Stearns wrote: > Just a sort of word of warning... > > Adobe recently asked me to rename my FlashObject script to something > else because of trademark/legal issues. They are trying to protect > their 'Flash' trademark, and apparently macromedia was a bit more > relaxed about these things than Adobe is. > > So a word of warning to you all who use 'Flash' in the name of your > projects - you might want to think about changing it. > > more details here: > > http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/04/21/flashobject-to-become-swfobject/ > <snip> _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
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