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.

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Thanks, 'Fish

[MisterTut]

Translation of article courtesy of the 'Fish: Mandrake will have to change name Mandrake, editor French of the distribution Linux eponyme, was condemned by the TGI of Paris, to pour 70 000 at the American companies Hearst Holdings and King Fearture Syndicate, owners of the mark "Mandrake the magician", and editor of the comic strip of the same name. These last had carried felt sorry for in France for "diversion of mark". Especially, the court prohibited to the French the use of his name, and presses Mandrake to transfer its domain names towards the two American companies. A judgment which could carry a fatal blow to the French editor, whose goodwill rests only on its distribution eponyme. For the hour, Mandrake appealed, suspending the judgement and thus preserving its mark and its domain names. Let us recall that a preceding judgement - bearing on the logo - had ruled in favour of the two American companies. The French had already had to re-examine his copy.

oooh ooh .. i have a few suggestions:

[junkymailbox]

how about mand---- (man dash)

or---drake (dash drake)

or (m----ake) (m-dash-ake|make)!

Oh boy;

[p4ul13]

Here comes Man-----

"Hey; I just installed the latest ManDash distro!!"

The google translation!!

[ConfusedMongoose]

Wow, I'll make babelfish my first stop next time, after reading the translation above.

Reading this one from Google gave me a headache.

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Mandrake will have to change name

Was Mandrake, editor French of the distribution Linux eponyme, condemned by the TGI of Paris, to pour 70 000? at the American companies Hearst Holdings and King Fearture Syndicate, owners of the mark "Mandrake the magician", and editor of the comic strip of the same name. These last had carried felt sorry for in France for "diversion of mark". Especially, the court prohibited to the French the use of his name, and presses Mandrake to transfer its domain names towards the two American companies. A judgment which could carry a fatal blow to the French editor, whose goodwill rests only on its distribution eponyme.
For l?heure, Mandrake appealed, suspending the judgement and thus preserving its mark and its domain names.
Let us point out qu?un preceding judgement - bearing on the logo - had ruled in favour of the two American companies. The French had already had to re-examine his copy.