[hobbit] Don't make the pie higher! (was: RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen)

[Phil Wild]

Yes, the wiki would be good to list the names. I think we need a real
poll though to ensure there is no funny business with the poll though
;-)

Sometimes I find though that the simpler you make something for people
the more response you get...

Cheers

Phil

2008/8/4 T.J. Yang <tj_yang at hotmail.com>:
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> From: "Phil Wild" <philwild at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 9:38 AM
> To: <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)
>
>> I am not sure if any member use TWiki. The creater of TWiki ran into
>> similar issues with the copywrite owner of Buck Rogers. Twiki was the
>> kid sized robot. That Robot now appears on the page, along with a
>> disclaimer. I guess the difference there is that twiki.org may
>> actually bring some $'s to the original owners simply in advertising
>> an old memory. Unfortnately, the recent movies have had the opposite
>> effect with hobbit.
>>
>> So before we lose momentum, what software sits behind the shire?
>>
>> Can we get a poll going?
>>
>> I guess before we get a poll we need to create a list of choices.
>> Unless someone has a better method, send your suggestions direct to
>>
>> philwild at gmail dot com.
>>
>> I will set up a filter to collect them.
>>
>> Send the mail with a subject as such:
>>
>> hobbitname: suggested_name
>>
>> I will post a list of all suggested names to the list on August 15.
>> Then perhaps we can set up a poll where we can vote.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> How about use hobbit wiki site for this polling purpose ?
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/User_Guide#Renaming_Hobbit
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>
> tj
>
>> Phil
>> 2008/8/4 Hobbit User in Richmond <hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net>:
>>>
>>> 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 presume that's because of instruction from the client, not because of
>>> the benevolent character of the law firm.
>>>
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