Preliminary Injunction Against SuSE

Random Walk writes "The German news site Heise Online reports that on behalf of an anonymous client, a lawyer has won a preliminary injunction (German only) against the Linux distributor SuSE. The injunction forbids the delivery of SuSE CDs as long as they contain some program name that apparently violates a registered trademark. No more details available, but SuSE seems to be in negotiations with the other party." Head over to the fish for translation.

Comments

Court Gesture

[analemma]

That's one of the bad things about Open Source software in general: no fun with lawsuits!

At least SuSe lucked out with offering commercial software. Just think of all those poor Debian saps who'll never see the court jesters.

Germany has better quality Assholes too...

[Qbertino]

When it comes to being a major public pain in the butt, Gravenreuth dwarves Gates and Balmer by far.

This german guy is so f*cking full of sh*t, he's even a shame to the lawyers trade on this whole flippin' planet!
From what I gather he needs bodyguards whenever he moves in public. Note that this is germany where violence in public is considerably more seldom than in the US. Anyhow, he'd better have them if I ever bumb into this creep.

Possible Solution?

[friartux]

mv /bin/offending_name /bin/to_hell_with_gravenreuth

alias offending_name=to_hell_with_gravenreuth

Of course, you should feel free to use classic four-letter Anglo-Saxon words in your implementation, should that better fit your mood. :-)

Let me try...

[Decimal]

Huh. How did you get that result?

This is what I was given:

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In A.D. 2002, war was beginning. What happen? SuSe get signal. Main injunction turn on. It's Gravenreuth! A regional court in Munich say "How are you gentlemen! All SuSe distribution are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time." Apparently, somebody set SuSe up the bomb. The injunction forbids SuSE to continue to take off every 'zig' until SuSe knows what they are doing.

Attorney general v. Gravenreuth confirmed he was requested to send SuSe on the way to destruction on behalf of a third party, but declined to give further details. What Suse say! Christian Eagle, head of public relations at SuSe, stated his company will move 'zig' and provide more information at a later date. For great justice.
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Huh. Maybe I accidentally translated into Japanese first...

Much as I loathe SuSE...

[PigleT]

I wonder why he chose SuSE rather than any other distro (they're the only ones whose key distinctive feature is non-Free - YaST)...

But much as I despise the non-free nature of the distro, I do hope SuSE can stand up to this asshole.
If the lawyer's not prepared either to name his "client" (yeah, right) or to tackle the package with a "conflicting" name at source, then he really has to be a dipshit, sorry, I mean "he deserves to lose in court".