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VirtualDub Author Stymied by Trademark Troll

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the did-he-also-register-'lynch-mob'? dept.

trifish writes "The author of VirtualDub wrote on his blog that 'someone has registered "VirtualDub" as a "word mark" in Germany as of June 6, 2006 and is now sending out notices to people in that country demanding money for so much as mentioning the program and linking to the SourceForge download from their website.' Well, I confess that only now I fully understand why Linux, Mozilla, TrueCrypt, and other open source projects register their names as trademarks."

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  1. Whoa....I just heard of this new technology .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    NEW TECHNOLOGY TURNS weenersecks INTO Babies....

    FILIM @ 11!!!!

  2. mod him down!-misanthrope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "It'll never be too soon to apply the slashdot moderation system to the patent system and everything else."

    Yeah! Look at how well that works.

  3. Re:Illegal Patent Trolls? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You really don't know what you're talking about. At all. Please stop posting.