True... I hadn't even looked at it that way. A company can spend thousands of dollars sueing just to bully a person into giving up his/her rights. A person who is limited on the financial side will give up those rights very quick when considdering the costs of a lawsuit. I find this thought pretty scary... I thought one of the rules of internic were that once your domain-name was approved it was yours. Aren't domain-names distributed on a first come first serve bases, and wasn't that company virtually unknown at the time that the domain was registered? I think that any judge with a bit of common sence would understand that something as general as a noun in the English language, even if it's associated with some famous product, doesn't have to be that trademark. Names that aren't really nouns in a language are very elligable trademarks (eg. Nike, Coca Cola), but trademarking words from an existing language (eg soap, soup, chicken, earth) seems to me like an attempt at stretching the use of trademarking far beyond the original intent. We live in a society where money easily outdoes the rights of the individual, even though we are supposed to be protected against such things by the law.
Perhaps we all forget from time to time to complement people on how good their work is. A site like freshmeat is important to our community, and it must be a round the clock job to keep it updated.
We just assume that people like scoop realise how much we appreciate their work, and don't even take the time to tell them (Maybe this is like not thanking your parents every once in a while). It's in our nature to be this ingrateful, and that is a shame.
Personally, I was a little apprehensive about the new layout, but by the time I got to the bottom of todays releases I thought: "Well, it actually looks better".
Scoop, you've done a wonderful job so far, and you've got an entire community of ingrates on their knees begging you to come back. Keep up the good work.
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True... I hadn't even looked at it that way. A company can spend thousands of dollars sueing just to bully a person into giving up his/her rights. A person who is limited on the financial side will give up those rights very quick when considdering the costs of a lawsuit.
I find this thought pretty scary... I thought one of the rules of internic were that once your domain-name was approved it was yours. Aren't domain-names distributed on a first come first serve bases, and wasn't that company virtually unknown at the time that the domain was registered?
I think that any judge with a bit of common sence would understand that something as general as a noun in the English language, even if it's associated with some famous product, doesn't have to be that trademark. Names that aren't really nouns in a language are very elligable trademarks (eg. Nike, Coca Cola), but trademarking words from an existing language (eg soap, soup, chicken, earth) seems to me like an attempt at stretching the use of trademarking far beyond the original intent.
We live in a society where money easily outdoes the rights of the individual, even though we are supposed to be protected against such things by the law.
Perhaps we all forget from time to time to complement people on how good their work is. A site like freshmeat is important to our community, and it must be a round the clock job to keep it updated.
We just assume that people like scoop realise how much we appreciate their work, and don't even take the time to tell them (Maybe this is like not thanking your parents every once in a while). It's in our nature to be this ingrateful, and that is a shame.
Personally, I was a little apprehensive about the new layout, but by the time I got to the bottom of todays releases I thought: "Well, it actually looks better".
Scoop, you've done a wonderful job so far, and you've got an entire community of ingrates on their knees begging you to come back. Keep up the good work.