[hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen

[Geoff Hallford]

I like the idea of hsmon/hsmonitor or HSM for short.

We could always keep with the existing renaming like BigSister and go with
BigUncleHenrik or BUH! for short :)

'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra


On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford at gmail.com>wrote:

> Not a big fan of the l33t speak. I don't think it is going to help the
> cause much or the satisfy the lawyers.
>
> 'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Nash, David (ELS-OXF) <
> D.Nash at elsevier.com> wrote:
>
>>  *How about   "Hob-IT" ?*
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>> * *
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>> *The "-IT" implies something to do with computers. The word sounds the
>> same as the existing name. *
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>> * *
>>
>> *The only downside is some people might think it has something to do with
>> cooking. **J***
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>> * *
>>
>> *Dave*
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>> * *
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>> * *
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>> * *
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>>
>> *From:* Dan Simoes [mailto:dan.simoes at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* 01 August 2008 15:02
>> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
>> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change
>> will happen
>>
>>
>>
>> How about h0bbit?
>>
>> (that's a zero, not an O)
>> Don't think that would work for a domain though.
>>
>> Otherwise, I vote for hmon (hobbit monitor) or hsmon (Henrik Stoerner's
>> monitor).
>> Both are available as .org domains.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> some lawyers behind the movie company that produced the "Lord of the
>> Rings" trilogy have contacted me about using the name "Hobbit" for the
>> Hobbit monitor project.
>>
>> Fortunately, it seems that these people are actually quite sensible.
>> They just want to make sure that there is no risk of anyone assuming
>> that the "Hobbit monitor" has anything to do with the books, movies,
>> merchandise etc. that they produce.
>>
>> So they've suggested that beginning with the next release, "Hobbit
>> monitor" is renamed to either "Hobbi monitor" (without the 't'), or
>> "H.O.B.B.I.T. Monitor" . Or something else, but they want to know
>> if I pick something else.
>>
>> The full correspondance can be seen at
>> http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbitdocs/legal/
>>
>> My current preference is to use the "H.O.B.B.I.T." version;
>> this is most like the current name, and it would also fit
>> with all of the current URL's used for various Hobbit functions (e.g.
>> the "hobbitmon.sf.net" project page). I'm going to write the lawyers and
>> get a definite OK that I can use "hobbitmon" in URL's and such;
>> I doubt that I can get Sourceforge to accept a project named
>> "h.o.b.b.i.t." since that would probably cause havoc with the DNS
>> entries ...
>>
>> But I'd like to hear if there are other suggestions or opinions.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Henrik
>>
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