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The Apple Name Game
Apple Core sent a link to an article running in Australia about Apple fighting for their name with some little telco called Apple Communications. Well, they were called that. Now they are Green.
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...all the grocery stands, supermarkets, and open-air markets would have to pay the Big A for using their name on all the produce tags.
People fighting over generic names of fruits, whats next?!? people fighting over generic names of holes, like windows???
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With names like Ogg and Vorbis it is much easier to establish a trademark given that they are completely invented name (oh! wait! Maybe they are words in another langage?). And given the controversy inside Free Software circles it gives them much marketing for free.
BTW, on close view I am for Apple on this one, I really think they will win against Apple
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." Bill Gates,
...going to be over their choice of domain name: iGreen.com.au. These guys must enjoy being in court.
Internet copyright lawyers are generally iTools about stuff like this.
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I'm concerned that Linux is not going to make it to the big time for one simple reason. While coders are working on the system, developers are writing applications, and the press is writing about Linux, there is no concerted effort by a central group that is pursuing important lawsuits against those who use the word "Linux," the syllable "lin," or the letter L in their product names. Further, the penquins at are zoo are labeled as such without any notice that they are not related to or shareholders of a Linux company. I for one am confused by these misleading names and animals and I am sure that if they aren't stopped, and I mean soon, Linux is sure to fade into obscurity.
Can't someone do anything about this problem before it's too late? And why isn't Linus leading the legal fight? What's he got that is more important to work on?
Yeah, I'm as old as my UID would suggest.
Apple computers is sueing New York for $ 100 billion Dollors for using "The Big Apple" to promite the city. A spokes person for Apple (computers) said "New York is obviosly using our good name to lure overpriced high earning apple users to new york and get rid of the bad apples already there"
As the saying goes. One bad apple spoils the bunch.
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As for naming the computer company, well, this was the year when "Kentucky Fried Computer" seemed like a reasonable name, as did "Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia". Maybe it was the Bicentennial fever which gripped us all...
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