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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.

6 of 280 comments (clear)

  1. Let me get this straight: by burgburgburg · · Score: 5, Funny
    I got this tattoo for nothing?

    Okay, this time I mean it: No more product-based body modification.

  2. Re:OpenTalk? by McCall · · 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...
  3. Confusing? by pldms · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Given that the issue was that there were two things called 'rendezvous' the statement:

    Rendezvous' new name will be OpenTalk

    doesn't really help :-)

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  4. Re:In Other News... by syates21 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah that's the same.
    TIBCO has had a patented networking protocol called Rendezvous for years that is the core of their whole business. It runs a few small systems you may have heard of like, oh, NASDAQ.

    It's not too hard to see why they might be upset at another company coming out and promoting a completely different and unrelated networking protocol with the same name.

  5. To highlight the product similarities by phoebe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tibco's Rendezvous can be used to the do same task as Apple's Rendezvous, i.e. dynamic configuration. They both use multicast and don't require server endpoint configurations like addresses, etc. However Tibco's Rendezvous can also do generic, certified, and transactional messaging and hence Apple's product description does harm by implying Tibco's software has less capabilities, i.e. inferior, to what it really is.

    To update the trademark links, Tibco was formally Teknekron:

  6. Re:Fianlly - a name that makes sense by arkanes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're an english speaker and you don't know the word "rendezvous" then you DESERVE to feel like in idiot. It's not a made up word, or even technical. It's in the dictionary. And not just the OED, it's in every 2 dollar cheapo Merriam-Webster dictionary that you got from a used bookstore in high school and you still keep around. What the hell is wrong with people?