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

[T.J. Yang]

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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


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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