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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:46:52 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, grog@lemis.com, koshy@india.hp.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: General policy on trademark violations
Message-ID:  <199802132146.OAA07390@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802131610.JAA06143@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Feb 13, 98 09:10:45 am

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> :   Are you willing to fund the FreeBSD Project's defence against a 
> :   trademark litigation case pursued by Hasbro?
> 
> Hasbro is notorious for fighting tooth and nail for their trademarks,
> even when they don't have much of a case.  Witness all the money that
> Clue Computing has spent on legal defence of clue.com.  Unless there
> is someone that wants to step in and fund the legal defence of the
> FreeBSD stuff, I hate to say it, but killing stuff from the tree is
> cheaper and easier.

Renaming it is cheaper still, since it doesn't require clobbering it
in the attic.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
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