Insert appropriate Prince (or the artist formerly referred to as Prince) joke here. :-)
Cheers V
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 agreeit 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 remindedme 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 To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk
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