Yeah - I'm pretty sure that's completely groundless. You should send a copy to BoingBoing. They love that stuff.
Understandable that you don't want to get into it with a big company, but I bet they don't have any legal leg to stand on. It's a real bummer. The pd webring is where I first learned a lot of stuff about the language. Sucks that people think they own the word. cheers dafydd Jack wrote: > It's a joke ? > webring is a trademark, hahaha, it's ridiculous. > > Jack > > > Le 18 oct. 07 à 11:08, kluppe a écrit : > >> hi pd-people! >> >> i received an email from webring.com, telling me that "webring" is >> now a >> registered trademark of webring.com and asking me to "discontinue >> use of >> the term webring" on my website. >> i don't know if this has any juristic relevance to me, since i am >> not in >> the us and i am not using the term for commercial activities, but i >> don't want to hire a lawyer to find it out. >> >> so: i changed the name and url of pd webring to pd_ring. >> please change the code of pd webring on your websites to point to >> http://pd.klingt.org/pd_ring/ instead. >> >> sorry for the inconvinience >> shit happens >> d13b >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PD-list@iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ >> listinfo/pd-list > > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list