From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 13 16:36:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17379 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:36:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17353 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:36:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA05504; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:35:35 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802140035.QAA05504@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Warner Losh cc: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: General policy on trademark violations In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:13:19 MST." <199802140013.RAA09317@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:35:35 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <199802131726.SAA11890@yedi.iaf.nl> Wilko Bulte writes: > : What will FreeBSD Inc do if say a big company near Seattle sues > : FreeBSD Inc for something? Theoretical maybe (probably ;-) but > : the case is clear: no way the 'Chuck defense team' would ever win. > : No $$ to burn. > > I'm sure that lots of people would come out of the woodwork to support > almost any of the *BSDs that get sued by said company... I know that > I would. I'm sure they would, if the cause was reasonable. Would you bankrupt yourself for such a trivial cause as a clone of a stupid word-guessing game? Is it worth that much to you? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message