Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 08:22:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: src/games/boggle (tm) will soon be removed from repository Message-ID: <199802190822.BAA26284@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199802190236.SAA15418@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Feb 18, 98 06:36:19 pm
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> > So you decided against running the committer (a committer is a type > > of shell interpreter ;-)) script that I posted that would have > > accomplished the rename without this type of damage? > > Yes, that's right. Terry, choose your battles, OK? This is a stupid > bloaty game that nobody plays even when they can find it. If it > were renamed, nobody would find it if they looked for it, which they > wouldn't. This is the type of justification that begs for someone to point out to the first company to threaten a trademark case against a so-called "important part of the system" that: "Clearly your request is not being taken as seriously as Parker Brother's request, since all they did was change the name for you, but for Parker Brothers, they actually removed the infringing code". Just so we are all clear on the precedent for what any future trademark claimants can require as "reasonable, sufficient, and historically precedented action" on FreeBSD's part. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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