[hobbit] Don't make the pie higher!

[michael nemeth]

anyone suggest HNh (Hobbit is not hobbit) to follow GNU (gnu not unix) ?

Josh Luthman wrote:
> Flushed Fish has my vote.
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> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gumby3203 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Galen Johnson
>     <Galen.Johnson at sas.com <mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com>> wrote:
>
>         I'm not saying they weren't very nice...I agree it could have
>         been handled in a much less friendly manner...lawyers never
>         cease to amuse me.
>
>         Of course, when we pick a new name, I'm going to have to
>         figure out a different name for The Shire to go with
>         it...maybe I'll call it "Live Dog" or "Undead Hamster" or
>         "Flushed Fish"... :-D
>
>
>     Hahah, "Undead Hamster"!  That name immediately reminded me of the
>     "Hampster Dance"
>     [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampster_Dance]
>      
>
>         =G=
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk
>         <mailto:henrik at hswn.dk>]
>         Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 10:32 AM
>         To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk>
>         Subject: Re: [hobbit] Don't make the pie higher! (was: RE:
>         [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will
>         happen)
>
>         In
>         <36304.192.168.0.1.1217859745.squirrel at epperson.homelinux.net
>         <mailto:36304.192.168.0.1.1217859745.squirrel at epperson.homelinux.net>>
>         "Hobbit User in Richmond" <hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net
>         <mailto:hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net>> writes:
>
>         >On Mon, August 4, 2008 09:00, Galen Johnson wrote:
>         >> After reading the letters, it looked to me that as soon as
>         they found out
>         >> they couldn't pin anyone down to get a slice of the
>         ephemeral pie, they
>         >> decided that the name should be changed.
>
>         >Well, as a PHB who's also a Linux lead, the way I read the
>         letters is that
>         >as soon as they found out they couldn't pin anyone down to
>         commit to not
>         >selling  slices of their client's pie and not giving any more
>         of it away
>         >than was already the case, they wanted a name change.  I
>         thought the
>         >attitude was quite refreshing after seeing decades worth of
>         threatening
>         >cease-and-desist letters.
>
>
>         I agree. I think they have been treated me nicely; they could
>         have just
>         sent me a "stop-doing-this-or-we'll-sue-you-now" letter. They
>         didn't,
>         and in fact they have been generous to suggest a couple of
>         possible
>         name changes that I could do which would keep them happy.
>
>         Add to this that they actually knew what I was talking about,
>         when I
>         told them that Hobbit is an Open Source product, so there is
>         no money
>         involved.
>
>         They have a trademark to defend, and one of the rules of that
>         game is
>         that they MUST react when they become aware of possible
>         violations of
>         their trademark; if they don't, then they can forfeit their
>         ownership
>         of the trademark. So they have to do something, and I think
>         they handled
>         this nicely.
>
>         Sure - having to rename everythin IS annoying, but I should
>         have thought
>         about that when I first picked the name.
>
>
>         Regards,
>         Henrik
>
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