The problem with your argument is what happens when someone decides to open a store near yours with the same name and logo as yours? Now they are competing merchendise and cashing in on your advertising and good name. This is the sort of thing that Trademark Law is meant to protect against.
I would agree that most, if not all, Patent and Copyright protection is garbage, but Trademark protection protects only your name and image.
Don't forget the DisHonorable Mentions
1. SCO for the as-yet-unseen Unix code that the company alleges was ripped off in Linux
2. Microsoft for its "secure computing initiative" and the ever-slipping ship date for Longhorn, which is shaping up to be a very promising candidate for the Vaporware awards in 2006, 2007 and maybe even 2008.
I work as a tester for an embedded systems software group. When I started here, all of the tests were hand written and formatted. With information coming out of various databases and models. Basically, none of the programmers wanted anything to do with formal testing so the process was a mess. I decided something had to be done. With the use of a MatrixX script and some Perl Scripts, a process that took 4 hours was reduced to 15 minutes. Needless to say, this got a lot of attention. Since then, the company has decided to start sending people to training to learn scripting languages.
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The problem with your argument is what happens when someone decides to open a store near yours with the same name and logo as yours? Now they are competing merchendise and cashing in on your advertising and good name. This is the sort of thing that Trademark Law is meant to protect against.
I would agree that most, if not all, Patent and Copyright protection is garbage, but Trademark protection protects only your name and image.
Sci-Fi channel is airing the episodes on Friday nights at 7pm. It's another option besides buying the dvds.
Don't forget the DisHonorable Mentions
1. SCO for the as-yet-unseen Unix code that the company alleges was ripped off in Linux
2. Microsoft for its "secure computing initiative" and the ever-slipping ship date for Longhorn, which is shaping up to be a very promising candidate for the Vaporware awards in 2006, 2007 and maybe even 2008.
I work as a tester for an embedded systems software group. When I started here, all of the tests were hand written and formatted. With information coming out of various databases and models.
Basically, none of the programmers wanted anything to do with formal testing so the process was a mess. I decided something had to be done. With the use of a MatrixX script and some Perl Scripts, a process that took 4 hours was reduced to 15 minutes.
Needless to say, this got a lot of attention. Since then, the company has decided to start sending people to training to learn scripting languages.
You know the old engineering adage:
If it's not broken, it doesn't have enough features.