From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 25 9:40:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles553.castles.com [208.214.165.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D911015316 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04358; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908251634.JAA04358@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Mike Smith , "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:30:12 PDT." <15454.935598612@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:34:03 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > But it's not going into the tree, no. I think Kevin's point and the > > experiences we had with Hasbro should already have convinced people of > > that much. > > I think people are being almost clinically paranoid here. Hasbro and > folks got upset over TRADEMARK infringement, e.g. from using a name > they had trademarked. I rather doubt that Warner Bros. have managed > to trademark the name "matrix" since it's already a common english > word. "Boggle" and "Tetris" don't fall into that category. The issue with boggle and tetris wasn't the name, it was "look and feel". That's the same issue here; the "matrix" screensaver mimics the "distinctive likeness" of a portion of WB's entertainment product, and being a screensaver (rather than, say, a car component) it's also an "entertainment product". -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message