Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 00:02:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: benco@pendor.McKusick.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? Message-ID: <199711050002.RAA26493@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4964.878612091@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 3, 97 06:54:51 pm
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> Hmmm. I wouldn't be surprised if gomoku, phantasia (Disney) and trek > were also slated for The Nasty Letter some time in the future. That's with an "F" (it's a homonym). > I'd say NetBSD's got even more infringers in their tree than we do and > would probably be well advised to nuke their /usr/src/games also. :) I'd say *none* of them were infringing. You were willing as hell to let "comp.unix.bsd" go in in place of "comp.bsd" in the news groups, if I rememebr correctly. Where was your fear of trademarks then? > And since when was rot13 a "game", anyway? A pretty boring game, if > you ask me :) That's not the point, and you damn well know it. Why don't I just save us all the trouble and bring things to a head by turning any even remotely trademarked system file into the putative trademark owner. Then we can get of all these "dangerous" files at one time, and never have to worry about it again, instead of picking off programs you (Jordan) or someone else decides that we can live without, one at a time. Do we thing "Keds", "Superfeet", "Just for Feet", or "Sears" owns the trademark on "boot"? I'm sure we can live without that... I'm sure "Public Key Partners" will happily claim trademark on "Passwd"; after all, they invented passwords, right? Isn't "login" a magazine name? Let's replace that with "user name"... oh, wait... that's a trademark of DEC. And doesn't "X Windows" contain "Windows"? This is all assinine. The name spaces are non-intersecting. Proctor and Gamble as much as admitted it outright when they registered their trademarks as domain names instead of just not letting anyone else register them. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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