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Rendezvous Renamed to OpenTalk

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. OpenTalk? by proj_2501 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm sure Apple registered that trademark a LONG time ago. In fact, I think it's been used before for something else.

    LocalTalk, OpenTalk, PowerTalk, AppleTalk, MacinTalk, KanjiTalk, ZhongWenTalk, etc. etc.

  2. branding by Speare · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I have always thought the 'Rendezvous' name was so non-Apple. Seems like every Apple technology is ThisTalk or ThatTalk, ever since the first Macintoshes that could "talk" to cabled devices like printers. This "OpenTalk" initiative name makes more sense for the Apple brand, it would seem.

    Now that Apple's got a pretty good speech-recognition and text-to-speech engine, all the networking talks have to compete with the real talking for cute marketing terminology, such as "PlainTalk."

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    1. Re:branding by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Except that *Talk has generally referred to technologies for allowing computers to talk to each other (i.e. exchange information. Rendezvous is a protocol that allows computers to meet each other, but not talk (the communication part is usually done over TCP or UDP, Rendezvous is a discovery mechanism). As such, the Rendezvous name is much more apt than OpenTalk.

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  3. The reality of the situation by Johnny+Mozzarella · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Apple is one of the few companies creating innovative technologies and doing stuff that matters with it.

    For example last night, I picked up an Airport Express. From unpacking to hearing streaming music on my stereo, less than 5 minutes.
    Is WiFi new? No.
    Is streaming music new? No.
    But Apple has taken the same basic building blocks everyone else has to play with and made something innovative.
    The iPod is the same story.

  4. Re:More lawsuits to come by mbbac · · Score: 2, Interesting
    U.K.-based BTG Plc has sued Microsoft Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. for allegedly infringing a patent that covers Web-enabled software update technologies, the company announced Wednesday.
    The strange thing is that Apple's Software Update isn't Web-enabled.
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  5. rendezvous with what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Translate that headline in French and it give you something like Tibco doesn't want you to use the word "meeting" or "appointment"

    Or more simply, the English word rendezvous.
    http://dictionary.reference.com/searc h?q=rendezvou s

    can they realy do that?

    I know, it's like the old Windows vs windows (and no, I won't mention french windows) but think about it.

  6. Any OpenTalk/ZeroConf servers for *NIX? by FLoWCTRL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anyone know of open source tools for configuring Macs using ZeroConf? It would be nice to have printers auto-configured when mac users plug into our UNIX network. For now they can use IP or the samba service, but those require that the user actually know something.

  7. Re:Bad Choice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would say "too chatty" is an understatement, the term "Appletalk storm" was a common term back in the days. We had a lab full of Macs and they went bonkers one weekend, using up all the bandwidth from our department building to our school's main gateway to the internet.

  8. My business strategey..... by HighOrbit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    will be to go through the dictionary and append the word prefixes "Open", "G", "e", "Free", "K", and "i" to every word and then trademark them. I will be the King of Trademarks. Anyone contemplating releasing any computer product must pay me unreasonably large amounts of money. I will be rich!

    Ok.. Let's get started, OpenAardvark(tm)(R), GAardvark(tm)(R), e-Aardvark(tm)(R), FreeAardvark (tm)(R), KAardvark (tm)(R), iAardvark(tm)(R).....

  9. Re:More lawsuits to come by myov · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IIRC, Software Update uses HTTP to access the update list, but it uses a specific client app rather than a web browser.
    (otherwise it wouldn't make it through corp firewalls)

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  10. Re:Let me get this straight: by System.out.println() · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sad, but true....

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  11. Apple will face a suit over OpenTalk too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    OpenTalk has been in use by Cincom for the Visualworks smalltalk product for a number of years now. Cincom will no doubt have something to say over apple trademarking the name since it is taken and copyrighted by Cincom. someone might want to let apple know http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/ is Cincom's smalltalk website and you can download it for free and also learn about OpenTalk

  12. Haven't I heard about this OpenTalk thing before? by NaCh0 · · Score: 1, Interesting
    It looks like Apple is making the same mistake that Mozilla "Firebird" did.

    Any SmallTalk developers?

    Any Messaging fans?