From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 13 13:36:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13375 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:36:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13366 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:36:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA10201; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:36:25 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id WAA05881; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 22:36:25 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980213223624.10285@follo.net> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 22:36:24 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Curt Sampson Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: General policy on trademark violations References: <19980213222459.24281@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Curt Sampson on Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 01:32:21PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 01:32:21PM -0800, Curt Sampson wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > If they'd wanted to avoid the problem and do a public relations coup, > > they should have offered to sell a license for a symbolic sum ('an > > undisclosed sum' as they tend to call such things :-) > > What sort of public relations coup would that be? Making a few > anal-retentive people on an obscure mailing list happy about keeping > something they never use hardly counts as a `coup' in my books. For essensially zero cost they'd be able to have us send a very positive announcement to 1/2 million FreeBSD users. They could certainly have included some requirement to announcements in the release-notes etc. I'd say they had a nice opportunity for showing that "we're the good guys", and they would have gotten the attention of people that otherwise don't really give a hoot about Boggle (like me). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message