Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 22:36:24 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: General policy on trademark violations Message-ID: <19980213223624.10285@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980213133133.27727P-100000@cynic.portal.ca>; from Curt Sampson on Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 01:32:21PM -0800 References: <19980213222459.24281@follo.net> <Pine.NEB.3.96.980213133133.27727P-100000@cynic.portal.ca>
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On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 01:32:21PM -0800, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>
> > If they'd wanted to avoid the problem and do a public relations coup,
> > they should have offered to sell a license for a symbolic sum ('an
> > undisclosed sum' as they tend to call such things :-)
>
> What sort of public relations coup would that be? Making a few
> anal-retentive people on an obscure mailing list happy about keeping
> something they never use hardly counts as a `coup' in my books.
For essensially zero cost they'd be able to have us send a very
positive announcement to 1/2 million FreeBSD users. They could
certainly have included some requirement to announcements in the
release-notes etc.
I'd say they had a nice opportunity for showing that "we're the good
guys", and they would have gotten the attention of people that
otherwise don't really give a hoot about Boggle (like me).
Eivind.
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