From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Dec 19 0:45:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEE737B41A for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:45:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0155.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.155] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16GcLQ-0004dZ-00; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:44:56 -0800 Message-ID: <3C205387.5E3EF927@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:44:55 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: Mike DeGraw-Bertsch , "Person, Roderick" , Fergus Cameron , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hotmail _still_ runs FreeBSD! References: <3C1FFDE5.90B751FE@mindspring.com> <014001c18845$8a87ef90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C202B18.4F1AEA2C@mindspring.com> <017401c18853$e44cdc30$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C20372B.E93291B9@mindspring.com> <018a01c1885a$0e41c4f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > What you describe as the requirement is the > > behaviour I claim Microsoft is exhibiting. > > I know. The problem is that you have provided no evidence for your claim. Luckily, Occam's Razor is on my side. You have not provided any evidence that they are exhibiting trademark establishing behaviour as part of some subtrefuge, rather than in an attempt to establish the trademark. Barring evidence to the contrary, I think I will take their efforts at face value. > > I looked at the other reference I posted, as > > you obviously haven't. It is clearly an (R). > > It isn't clearly anything. In fact, upon very close examination, it appears > to be part of the letter "t," and not a separate symbol at all. However, > even in the "large" GIF to which you refer, the symbol, if any, is only two > pixels across--far too small to distinguish the glyph that might have > produced it. You're willfully ignoring it. > > ... but the information about the status of the > > registration may be dated, since the USPTO states > > that the information on their site may lag reality. > > A third possiblity is that you are simply incorrect. That's highly unlikely, given my track record. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message