On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ma, 2008-11-03 kello 08:11 +0000, Matthew East kirjoitti: >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > ma, 2008-11-03 kello 08:17 +0100, Mario Vukelic kirjoitti: >> >> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:31 +0530, shirish wrote: >> >> > had to rename it to cruft-remover-gtk due >> >> > to trademark related names. >> >> >> >> Non-technical users have absolutely no idea what "cruft" means. >> >> Wikipedia correctly says, "Cruft is computing jargon" >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft >> > >> > Hmmm. That is, unfortunately, a very good point. Not sure what would be >> > the best way to deal with that. >> >> It's to remove the word. > > That would leave the name as "Remover", which is also not so good. :)
Heh, you took me a bit too literally there. I meant that the word should be removed from the application completely, but of course it would need to be replacd with another title. To be honest, I find the word "Remover" a bit awkward, as well. "Removal" would work better, I think. I've searched through my list email to try to find the previous discussion about why the name needed to be changed, and what alternative names could be used, but I couldn't find it. I guess it was during a meeting. "System Cleaner" is the obvious name of course. I find it incredibly dubious that a trademark could validly be enforced over a name which is made up of generic and descriptive terms. As far as I know most legal systems require trademarks to be distinctive. I suppose the concern is over this product? http://www.pointstone.com/products/systemcleaner/ I see that at the bottom of that website, the company seek to assert a trademark over the name, although it's (perhaps intentionally) ambiguous whether it is a registered trademark. I'd be surprised. Even if there is a valid trademark there, I'm sure an alternative name can be found with a bit of brainstorming. Just to kick things off: System Cleanup, Cleanup Your System, System Restore (is that a trademark too?), System Cleanser, System Janitor, {Unwanted/Unused/Obsolete} {Program/File} {Removal/Cleanup} Some of those are pretty bad as well, but hopefully would be an improvement. My favourite would be "Obsolete File Removal". -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
