Rendezvous Renamed to OpenTalk

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Rendezvous Renamed to OpenTalk

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 21, 2004 @02:57AM from the legal-chest-thumping dept.

Gogo Dodo writes "Back in August, Slashdot covered Tibco suing Apple over the Rendezvous trademark. AppleInsider now reports that the lawsuit has been settled and Rendezvous' new name will be OpenTalk." Meanwhile Zeroconf sits in the corner and cries.

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Let me get this straight: by burgburgburg · 2004-07-21 03:00 · Score: 5, Funny

I got this tattoo for nothing?
Okay, this time I mean it: No more product-based body modification.
1. Re:Let me get this straight: by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-21 03:09 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I want a firefox tattoo, but I'm afraid that the browser probebly will be renamed again and in a few years noone remembers what "firefox" is!
  
  Does "phoenix" ring a bell?
2. Re:Let me get this straight: by mrpuffypants · 2004-07-21 03:22 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  /me puts hand over "Coleco Forever!" tattoo
In Other News... by gmletzkojr · 2004-07-21 03:02 · Score: 2, Funny

Tibco gets sued by Buick, which has a car named Rendezvous.

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now by TexasDex · 2004-07-21 03:02 · Score: 4, Funny

Cue "Lindevous" jokes.

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Bad Choice by Johnny+Mozzarella · 2004-07-21 03:02 · Score: 4, Funny

Sounds too much like AppleTalk.
I can hear the IT folks gripping.
1. Re:Bad Choice by BurritoWarrior · 2004-07-21 03:50 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I can hear the IT folks gripping.
  
  Yeah, well it's hard for us to find girls.
Slashdot has been taken over by Apple! by Al+Dimond · 2004-07-21 03:03 · Score: 4, Funny

I, for one, welcome our translucent overlords.
Re:More lawsuits to come by Orgazmus · 2004-07-21 03:03 · Score: 4, Funny

bahagha! pnline isnt a real word! PWND!!

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Slashdot to be renamed AppleDot? by insomnyuk · 2004-07-21 03:04 · Score: 2, Funny

Maybe:

'New for quasi-intellectual, artistic elitists. Stuff that splatters.'

No. But seriously, has this place become all Apple, all the time?
terrible name... by rizzo420 · 2004-07-21 03:04 · Score: 4, Funny

they should've named it iTalk to go along with all the other apple names.

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Re:OpenTalk? by McCall · 2004-07-21 03:06 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe the FSF or someone in that league should try to trademark Open* names and reserve them for Open programs?
You idiot, Rendezvous is open

But then again, I don't expect somone with a UID as high as 761208 to know that...
Re:Apple Apple Apple ... Orange? by Gannoc · 2004-07-21 03:07 · Score: 4, Funny

As for this article, let this be a lesson to you: if you sue Apple over a name, it is you who will end up having to change your name.

What? _Apple_ is changing their name, not the company.

I've heard of not reading the article (RTFA), but rarely seen someone who didn't even read the summary.
Re:Confusing? by mcmonkey · 2004-07-21 03:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Given that the issue was that there were two things called 'rendezvous' the statement:
Rendezvous' new name will be OpenTalk
doesn't really help :-)
To avoid any future confusion, both products will be renamed. To OpenTalk.
All clear?
Can they rename to FireBirdFoxCaminoTalk? by cant_get_a_good_nick · 2004-07-21 03:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Is there a Mozilla implementation?
Re:OpenTalk? by ximenes · 2004-07-21 03:17 · Score: 3, Funny

Frankly I'm surprised you can understand it either, with a UID as high as 212035!

What were you guys doing when Slashdot started taking accounts, reading Byte?
At least they did not try... by grunt107 · 2004-07-21 03:22 · Score: 2, Funny

CoffeeTalk!
Take That, Frenchies! by Michael_Burton · 2004-07-21 03:25 · Score: 3, Funny

Shrewd marketing. Rendezvous always sounded kinda French to me.

Everybody knows us Amurricans in the red states don't like nothin' French. Suddenly I feel like goin' out and buyin' me a big bunch o' Apples!

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Re:Taco... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-21 03:28 · Score: 1, Funny

Yeah, but the reason is straightforward: ZeroConf is a name only an engineer's mother could love. That f at the end. Really rolls off the tongue. Not.
Re:OpenTalk? by argent · 2004-07-21 03:37 · Score: 4, Funny

it looks like Apple is trying to purposefully confuse people by prepending "Open" to this product

<sarcasm>Yes, deliberately using the term "open" to describe an open standard based on an open source project is just so sneaky and underhanded...</>
Re:More lawsuits to come by b1t+r0t · 2004-07-21 03:56 · Score: 2, Funny

So you're saying the robots all have Courier modems? All right! (Unless they use Sporsters, in which case, never mind.)

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They're running out of combinations... by dpbsmith · 2004-07-21 03:57 · Score: 2, Funny

OpenTalk, AppleTalk, HyperTalk, LocalTalk, MacinTalk... ...BabelTalk, YadayadaTalk, JargonTalk...

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I finally learned how to spell it by MyDixieWrecked · 2004-07-21 05:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Right when I finally learn how to spell rendezvous...
...they decide to change the name to OpenTalk.

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Re:OpenTalk? by NormanEinstein · 2004-07-21 06:44 · Score: 2, Funny

It impressed me.
I thought all the people with low IDs, like 10, were in nursing homes or had passed on. ;-)