Godzilla Getting Ready to Stomp Mozilla?

mrBlond writes: "Doing the rounds: Seems like Toho [jp], 'the owner of all rights in and to the trademark and service mark GODZILLA [jp] and the GODZILLA characters,' is coming down on Davezilla for use of 'zilla' in his domain name and his dragon logo, to set a precedent before attacking Mozilla."

Comments

so what?

[endoboy]

mothra will protect us

Re:so what?

[DrNibbler]

Mothra... that's a Bugzilla, right?

Re:so what?

[PinkStainlessTail]

Look, all they have to do is change the name to Mojira. Problem solved.

Or not.

God

[Raster Burn]

On a related note, God decides to sue Toho for using the word "God" without His permission.

Re:God

[ThereIsNoSporkNeo]

Where's he going to get the lawyers?

Plus, I would assume that God would settle out of court. (Lightning rod anyone?)

Wowzilla.

[teamhasnoi]

That's fuckedzilla. Izilla hopezilla theyzilla don'tzilla comezilla afterzilla mezilla.

Forget Mothra...

[Eberlin]

...we need Robert Smith of The Cure to save us now. Nothing like a good ol' roshambo to settle this dispute.

New name / mascot needed.

[Hobart]

I recommend the Mozilla project change its mascot to another cute character ...

Something more approachable, but still computer related ... a mouse would do nicely...

Since the original name was derived from Mosaic, and the NCSA project is shelved and Spyglass is no more, "Mosaic Mouse" would do nicely...

OK, sing it with me...

Who's the browser, Open Sourced, that's made for you and me?
M O S - A I C
M O U S E!

Oh Shit

[aozilla]

My nick is in trouble.

Re:Uh oh!

[SquadBoy]

Man: I now pronounce you President of these United --
Reporter: Stop the inauguration! I just discovered our President Elect
got an F in second grade gym class!
[crows gasps; Lisa is handcuffed]
Man: In that case I sentence you to a lifetime of horror on Monster
Island. [to Lisa] Don't worry, it's just a name.
[Lisa and others are chased by fire-breathing monsters]
Lisa: He said it was just a name!
Man: What he meant is that Monster Island is actually a peninsula.

Original version

[Salsaman]

Sun, 11 August, 2002, war begining !
Goodbye little dragon guy!
[Blog] - Davezilla @ 07:07:43 pm
re: DAVEZILLA.COM
Dear Mr. Linabury:

What happen ? Someone set up us the trademark infringement ! Take off every 'zilla' ! You know what you doing.

For great justice,

SEYFARTH SHAW

Jill A. Jacobs

ALL YOUR FUNNY ARE BELONG TO THE MESOZOIC ERA!

[Hormonal]

Someone set us up the lame-ass joke.

Re:As reported on the register.

[Xerithane]

Yeah, and I personally like the diarrhea color scheme of Slashdot better than the register.

The letter about the *other* half...

[mengel]

re: Christ Church of God
Dear Mr. Minister:

...

It has come to our attention that you have incorporated the "GOD" portion of our client's GODZILLA marks in the name of your "Church of God" church name, and that you have included an unstoppable all-powerful being, which you refer to as "GOD", on your publications. Please be advised that your use of the "GOD" formative along with imagery associated with GODZILLA is likely to cause the users of your site to believe that the "Church of God" website is either associated with, authorized by, or sponsored by our client, and demonstrates an attempt by you to trade on the goodwill built up by our client.

...