Flushed Fish has my vote.
Josh Luthman
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--- Henry Spencer
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 (at) gmail.com
<mailto:gumby3203 (at) gmail.com>> wrote:
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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