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SuSE No Longer Barred From Selling
MobyTurbo writes "According to a press release SuSE is no longer barred from selling Linux as reported and discussed in a thread on slashdot. SuSE is settling out of court with a German company called "Crayon" that claims that the KDE app Krayon violates their trademark. Incidentally, this vulnerability probably applies to several other distributions."
What does Crayola have to say about this?
Walk with Music;
Perhaps crayon is considered a general word, like tissue. The trademark name comes from the brand, in this case Crayola (Kleenex).
Crayon Vertriebs has announced that to inhibit any future potential dilution of market value of their brand "Crayon", they intend to seek injunctions against the following 22,103 defendants:
Arayon 49 hits.
Brayon 463 hits.
Drayon 285 hits.
Erayon 30 hits.
Frayon 100 hits.
Grayon 547 hits.
Hrayon 2 hits.
Irayon 20 hits.
Jrayon 22 hits.
Krayon 12300 hits.
Lrayon 5 hits.
Mrayon 8 hits.
Nrayon 5 hits.
Orayon 56 hits.
Prayon 2750 hits.
Rrayon 4770 hits.
Srayon 52 hits.
Trayon 603 hits.
Urayon 2 hits.
Vrayon 5 hits.
Xrayon 17 hits.
Yrayon 10 hits.
Zrayon 2 hits.
At this time Crayon Vertriebs has not named any defendants using Qrayon 0 hits, Wrayon 0 hits, or rayon 467,000 hits. Crayon Vertriebs reserves the right to name additional defendants in the future.
- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Really? Who will Crayon be after next?
German footballer Stefan Kuntz?
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And why it did take it against SUSE instead of against the writer of the application?
Because everybody knows that you never file suit against someone who doesn't have any money. The first law of Western Civilization is: NEVER SUE POOR PEOPLE.
"...app called Krayon, listed in the start menu but no longer supplied..."
The what menu now??
(I know, I know, off topic, blah, blah - sue me.)
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