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Imminent Mandrake Name Change?
An anonymous reader writes "Mandrakesoft has lost a trial
and has been condemned to change its name and its logo"
The article is in French, but it says that King Syndicates owns a trademark on Mandrake the Magician.
Update MandrakeSoft can use the logo during appeals, which may take up to 3 years. You can now read their official statement on the ruling.
Seems to be all the rage lately.
Lothar: "Damn! Mandrake(c), that's as amazing as when Asterix kicked Mobilix in the ass!"
Narda: "Oh, Mandrake(c), take me now!"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Creepy stuff, hope MS doesn't make me change my name from Bob to Blob
Man-----?
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
And my office buddy heard it.
Me: *shakes head* Mumbles to himself, "France is making Mandrake change it's name, some trademark infringement."
Buddy: "France? Screw France. Tell'em they should rename it 'france'."
There ya go, francesoft. Fitting. I doubt he knows it's a product of frenchies.
Before I part with'em: two pennies weigh ~4.996+/-0.014g, have a zinc core, and the face of Lincoln. You can keep 'em.
"Newsflash! In order to prevent copyright issues, Mandrake has now changed name to M--- (pronounced "MASH")"
I read some when I was young, Mandrakesoft should not take the name Lotharsoft :)
"Science will win because it works." - Stephen Hawking
Announcing Firebird Linux.
Why dont they just do what Prince did and just use a random symbol and get everyone to wonder how they'll pronounce it only to fall back to the original name anyway (i.e. software formerly known as drake).
They are a funny people. This would never have happened in the good old US of A. Oh, wait...
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And here's the same passage translated by google from French to German to English to Italian to English:
Mandrake must for the change of name of Mandrake, is the French publisher of the distribution of Linux of eponyme pouring itself condemned from the TGI from Paris, 70.000? in the societies Hearst Americans to obtain the thing and owner of the king Fearture Syndicate of the indication "Mandrake magicien" and Herausgeberin of the pulled volume of the same name. These the posterior one had transported the claim in France for "the indication exclusion". Especially the court pribisce to the use of the relative name to the French and presses Mandrake that transfers the relati to you names of zone towards the two societies Americans. A judgment, in a position to transporting a mortal blow them to the French publisher, the relative good will on the relative distribution of eponyme is only based. For the l?heure Mandrake it has made the appointment, that it suspends the judgment and that therefore the relative indication maintains and relative to the zone names. Memories to on qu?un that the judgment preceding - that interests the brand - determines for the two societies Americans. The French has already had to still examine the relative copy.
Other suggestions: Find someone with a surname of Houdini to endorse the project...
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
PersonDrake still contains the male-only reference to Duck. Therefore, change it to:
PersonDuck
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
The primary enemy of Linux at this point is not SCO.
It is cartoon characters.
Hey, you know, now that I think about it, Elmer Fudd did always wear a red hat...
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
My next project will be named "Jprogjorjfwwfffffffwweewer33111l", just to be safe. It's an open source calendaring app.
Rename the distro to dleob043mv0934984mswkjy498x98c79s432kj43h987ckjhdf , and never worry about a name change again. ;)
That should fix the problem.
People who disagree with you are not automatically evil, greedy, or stupid.
I made that sound over a toilet once after drinking too much goldschalger.
The World's Worst Webcomic!
Although, I should warn you, I just patented the procedure of resolving copyright issues by changing the suffix of a product to "fox".
Mandark, but that's probably trademarked too.
LongTail SSH Brute Force analysis tool is here!
Why can't Mandrake-the-Linux-company claim that they're named after the root long thought of as magical by certain cultures?
The Linux distro that shrieks when you try to uninstall it.
The gift of death metal does not smile on the good looking.
42 would defently be the most fitting
Look at their current logo. (The topic icon.) Notice the little "magic" star and spark thingy. Notice a theme? Magic, maybe?
Take a look at their old logo. Compare with this image of Mandrake the Magician. Notice any similarities? Other than the penguin, it's basically the same thing - including the cape and wand! Although Mandrake the Magician doesn't have a big ugly star, and the cape is blue and not red.
It seems quite clear that Mandrake Linux intended to rip off Mandrake the Magician's look and name. It seems very clear to me that Mandrake Linux is in the wrong and will need to change their name. It's obvious they knew about Mandrake the Magician - they copied him for their original logo!
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
I'll beat that, try it from English to Japanese to English to Chinese to English to Korean to English back to French to English to German to English to Italian to English to Portugese to English to Spanish and to English once more
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After some outfit called HiMandrake, who claims to represent Mandrake, made me take down my eBay auctions for Mandrake CDs for trademark violations and supposedly violating the GPL (??????) I find this rather sweet.
It was high time somebody sued the Linux distributor. I am an avid fan of Mandrake the magician comics (King features). And since the death of Lee Falk (the author), its become a very rare thing to find. There aren't many websites on information about Mandrake (the magician). And whenever I tried googling for it, I found 100s of irrelevant links leading to information about the Linux OS! Similarly, whenever I search for another of King character (by Lee Falk), Phantom; I get loads of junk on Phantom of the Opera and other irrelevant stuff......Gawd!! Let us fans have some peace, how would you feel if Microsoft introduces a new OS named "Lord of the Rings" or "Spiderman"?? THe first 25-30 pages of google search will reveal only BS! Thanks to King comics for protecting the great work by someone as great as Lee Falk.
Sounds similar and for an added bonus the logo can be a duck baring it's arse in the direction of a magician.
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
> The French has already had to still examine the relative copy.
Yep, that sounds like the French.
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...perhaps they should change it to FireDrake?
Seen any BadMarketing lately?
God, you furries just don't give up!
The first part I can believe, but I just can't imagine you screaming "three! three! one! one! one!" at the end of it. Unless you were counting...
Yuck.
What's it gonna be this week? :)
cLive ;-)
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
Another PR disaster brewing - "so let me get this straight... you are saying linux is satanic?"