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

[Josh Luthman]

Flushed Fish has my vote.

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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Galen Johnson <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]
>> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 10:32 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)
>>
>> In <36304.192.168.0.1.1217859745.squirrel at epperson.homelinux.net> "Hobbit
>> User in Richmond" <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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