4 Aug
2008
4 Aug
'08
2:22 p.m.
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.