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Apple Sued Over Unix Trademark
Jerrry writes "CNET News reports The Open Group is suing Apple over unlicensed use of the Unix trademark, after Apple used the term in conjunction with its Mac OS X marketing. Apple, meanwhile, is countersuing to have the Unix trademark declared invalid because the term has become generic."
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
Why is the original post ("The IP Jungle That is Unix") labeled a "Troll"?
I think some of the Slashdot "editors" are really morons with an ideological intention to supress original thought and solid contributions to this board.
Against Open Source? "Troll." Against Richard Stallman? "Troll". In favor of Microsoft? "Troll".
And then on the opposite side, Praising Open Source? "Insightful." Praising Richard Stallman? "Insightful." Against Mico$oft (TM)? "Insightful." Bash the United States or George W. Bush? "Insightful."
What a bunch of MORONS!
Anyone else just plain fed up and disgusted with things at this point? I don't care who the players are, who or what is being "wronged" or "infringed upon" - I took one look at this topic and felt utterly sick to my stomach. All this litigiousness - it serves no one except for some lawyers and a CEO or two. Anyone really think you I or anyone who actually works on or uses "unix" will benefit from this, regardless of who "wins"?
That's just on this subject - I think my reaction is just a result of a long accumulation of the bile accruing from coming in contact with corporate U$A. The corporation was something that was granted by US the people, to serve US the people, then the corporation became a person itself, and now it seems we serve corporations. But I'll refer back to the original intent of corporations (ie. that they exist mainly to serve the public interest) in asking the following questions. What practical good will these lawsuits do for a majority of the people, directly or indirectly? Where's the benefit to mankind here? Where's the consideration of facilitating free exchange of ideas? Where's the thought toward allowing humanity to progress? Where's the cooperation leading to greater advancements? Where's the interest in posterity, the acknowledgement of building a positive future? Where's the f**king common sense?
If there aren't good answers to these questions at this point, I don't think these things should be taking up time, money, people and resources allocated from money we all pay to support the legal system abused by garbage like this. Basically all we have is some bizzaro world of corporate kindergarten where our petulant companies run to teacher any time they don't get their way and everyone else has to sit back and get screwed by the result. The system doesn't serve us anymore, and I can't even find representatives to get behind who might make things better. Run for office myself? Sorry I don't have the multi millions required to run for office, so I guess I get no representation.
Very depressing. There's got to be something better than what we've got now - and I'm pretty certain it involves putting a pretty short leash on our corporations - a tall order at this point.
To sum up, I hope they both lose - because everyone else already has.