From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 19 00:22:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA28085 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:22:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA28066; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:22:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA08609; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 01:22:31 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd008583; Thu Feb 19 01:22:22 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA26284; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 01:22:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802190822.BAA26284@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Heads up: src/games/boggle (tm) will soon be removed from repository To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 08:22:18 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802190236.SAA15418@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Feb 18, 98 06:36:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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-current" in the body of the message