Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 03:54:36 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: A Joseph Koshy <koshy@india.hp.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: General policy on trademark violations Message-ID: <6186.887370876@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:54:15 PST." <199802122154.NAA04198@dingo.cdrom.com>
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There's also the fact that the removal of boggle was discussed at least 2 months ago, when the lawyers *first* raised the issue with us. There was so much hullabaloo over it that I just threw my arms up in disgust and dropped the issue entirely - I couldn't find one person who actually PLAYED the friggin' game, mind you, but lots of folks were willing to fight to the very last drop of somebody else's blood over the issue. Anyway, this is now our "2nd warning" from the trademark folks in question and if was over something that even vaguely COUNTED for something (and I'll give the slower students a hint here: /usr/src/games/boggle does not, indeed, count for so much as a cup of lukewarm feline spittle in the overall BSD sense of things), then maybe I'd even consider fighting it or at the very least renaming it to "bogroll" or something but hey, it doesn't - it's a stupid antiquated game that the trademark holders should probably be ashamed of rather than attempting to defend here, OK? If it weren't for the damage to the CVS tree caused by having to actually punt it from the attic, hell, I'd probably even rate its departure as a welcome event! :-) Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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