It's interesting to observe that same type of battle is actually taking place in Japan as well.
It is battle between the company called Praesense making the software product Personaware which is much like a anime-style character based information manager. One of individual made the free-implementation of the product (but incorporates better features -- such as its own protocol called SSTP) called "Nise-Haruna" (website not available, because author was forced to close site -- don't know what kind of pressure took place, though) which means "Fake-Haruna" in Japanese.
Praesense sent the author of Nise-Haruna cease-or-desist letter. The Praesense apparently didn't like the fact that Nise-Haruna used word "Haruna" and "/haruna/" in their URL!
Later author changed the name of the program, so the program prompts for character's name at first time that the program is executed.
At this moment, after the author of Nise-Haruna's forced to cease its distribution (I think it is more of the author's choice)
I wanted to share this story, because it seems quite similar to what going on with SSH and OpenSSH.
Having no ad in the program is quite better. But be creative. Enjoy those ads as if they are news. YES, they are annoying, but in other-hand, you are getting latest information about various products.
I guess it is more of advertisers' too; why they don't make an ad interesting enough to attract people. They are usually very dumb and imho, only people knows nothing would ever click it and buy their product...
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It is battle between the company called Praesense making the software product Personaware which is much like a anime-style character based information manager. One of individual made the free-implementation of the product (but incorporates better features -- such as its own protocol called SSTP) called "Nise-Haruna" (website not available, because author was forced to close site -- don't know what kind of pressure took place, though) which means "Fake-Haruna" in Japanese.
Praesense sent the author of Nise-Haruna cease-or-desist letter. The Praesense apparently didn't like the fact that Nise-Haruna used word "Haruna" and "/haruna/" in their URL!
Later author changed the name of the program, so the program prompts for character's name at first time that the program is executed.
At this moment, after the author of Nise-Haruna's forced to cease its distribution (I think it is more of the author's choice)
I wanted to share this story, because it seems quite similar to what going on with SSH and OpenSSH.
Having no ad in the program is quite better. But be creative. Enjoy those ads as if they are news. YES, they are annoying, but in other-hand, you are getting latest information about various products.
I guess it is more of advertisers' too; why they don't make an ad interesting enough to attract people. They are usually very dumb and imho, only people knows nothing would ever click it and buy their product...