How does one find out what names are registered? In every country?
For Germany there's the German office
for patents and trademarks
(Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt). It requires a free registration and offers a search engine.
But it can give you only exact matches or
substrings.
It won't help you in these sound-alike cases
like Tricon <-> Triton.
And where will the judges draw the line?
And the "in every country" is the really
hard part.
You can never be sure:-(
...when a corporation or someone
"outside" of the Open Source community uses the
*law* to protect itself and its products it's so
*evil*.
That's not to the point. This lawyer is
notorious for making claims that may be
formally legal but almost everyone who
took part in the discussion on heise.de
agrees that he's *abusing* the law.
As already said several times by others
Symicron (trademark: Explorer) is still
to prove it even *has*
a product it claims to protect!!!
And it's not only about Open Source,
there are other IT companies that suffer
from this, too....
BTW: Heise attempts to have the trademark
"Explorer" removed.
I didn't want to feed you, troll,
spit it back out!
There seems to be some confusion about the
term videotext.
In Germany, Videotext is additional information
sent along with the TV signal and is used
to transmit simple pages like a TV guide or
weather forecasts. No back channel there.
The system that'll be taken offline is
BTX (Bildschirmtext). In the above
translation there are some occurrences of
VTX that should read BTX...
Slashdot Mirror
I guess that's a typo, the latest version of Knoppix is 3.2
> Glückwünsche, haben Sie Slashdot ermordet, > indem Sie zum korporativen Druck beugten und > Subskriptionen einleiteten. fish translation?
How does one find out what names are registered? In every country?
:-(
For Germany there's the German office for patents and trademarks (Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt). It requires a free registration and offers a search engine.
But it can give you only exact matches or substrings. It won't help you in these sound-alike cases like Tricon <-> Triton. And where will the judges draw the line?
And the "in every country" is the really hard part. You can never be sure
There have been a lot of rants like this, and FvG seems to enjoy this kind of publicity.
He's even one of the regulars on heise.de! People have been speculating that he gets some perverse satisfaction from pissing everbody off.
The ridiculous thing about it is that it seems to be only a remaining *menu entry* that's been forgotten in the distro!
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The app itself (Krayon) isn't even shipped, or so I learnt from the second article (see http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-08.01.02-
Really absurd.
...when a corporation or someone "outside" of the Open Source community uses the *law* to protect itself and its products it's so *evil*.
That's not to the point. This lawyer is notorious for making claims that may be formally legal but almost everyone who took part in the discussion on heise.de agrees that he's *abusing* the law. As already said several times by others Symicron (trademark: Explorer) is still to prove it even *has* a product it claims to protect!!! And it's not only about Open Source, there are other IT companies that suffer from this, too....
BTW: Heise attempts to have the trademark "Explorer" removed.
I didn't want to feed you, troll, spit it back out!
Only if you also have a time machine. Otherwise M$ would sue *you*. :-(
Ever noticed the (R) in Windows(R) ?
But only if the cheat code is published! Otherwise these rules don't apply :-(
Yes, I took the parent comment too seriously :-)
There seems to be some confusion about the
term videotext.
In Germany, Videotext is additional information
sent along with the TV signal and is used
to transmit simple pages like a TV guide or
weather forecasts. No back channel there.
The system that'll be taken offline is
BTX (Bildschirmtext). In the above
translation there are some occurrences of
VTX that should read BTX...