[hobbit] Don't make the pie higher!

[Everett, Vernon]

Insert appropriate Prince (or the artist formerly referred to as Prince)
joke here.
:-)
 
Cheers
     V

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From: michael nemeth [mailto:michael.nemeth at lmco.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2008 11:53 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Don't make the pie higher!


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> 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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