As owner and admin-c of gnubg.org I once in a while get request from
play65/ge and other companies. Usually I forward them to Oystein and
send a short comment that we are not interested.
Perhaps it's not unimportant to know, that years ago we agreed on a
small contract including a banner on the
Yeah they ought to give us the domain as a courtesy to all the GNU
backgammon bots playing there.
More seriously, of course it bothers me as well, but I don't know how
strong our case would be. First of all the official name is GNU
backgammon, not gnubg, and certainly not just gnu, and the
Michael Petch wrote:
Technically cybersquatting is illegal when it Is done so to generate
revenue.
I'm no expert but I think cybersquatting only applies in certain cases. I can't
see how we've got more right than anyone to gnubg.com really. There's thousand
of mis-type like sites too, I
The case should be good enough. The same logic on the name applies to them.
What other reason could they have to use the name gnubg, other than for
being the common abbreviation of GNU Backgammon. There is the clear-cut
similarity with GNUBG.org, which is further evidence that it is to receive
On 2/6/08 8:57 AM, Albert Silver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The case should be good enough. The same logic on the name applies to them.
What other reason could they have to use the name gnubg, other than for being
the common abbreviation of GNU Backgammon. There is the clear-cut similarity
On 2/6/08 9:54 AM, Michael Petch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think good faith on Gammon Logic¹s part
Should have read:
³I think it¹s BAD faith on Gammon Logic¹s part²
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Howdy all,
Off the beaten path a bit - I wanted to finally address my pet peeve with
GammonEmpire in reference to GnuBG. I have been known to give out the GnuBg
url to people but I occasionally give it incorrectly as GnuBG.com . What
bugs me is that Gammonempire/Play65 etc are cybersquatting and
Yeah it bugs me too and what kills me is no less than 1yr ago
i noticed it was free and thought about registering it
and said Why?
now i know why I should have :(
Howdy all,
Off the beaten path a bit - I wanted to finally address my pet peeve with
GammonEmpire in reference to GnuBG. I have
On 2/5/08 2:45 PM, Thomas A. Moulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah it bugs me too and what kills me is no less than 1yr ago
i noticed it was free and thought about registering it
and said Why?
now i know why I should have :(
I would donate the funds to the GnuBG project to pay for that
