From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 13 13:47:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16101 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:47:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@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 NAA16096 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:47:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12405; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:47:12 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd012309; Fri Feb 13 14:47:01 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07390; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:46:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802132146.OAA07390@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: General policy on trademark violations To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:46:52 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, grog@lemis.com, koshy@india.hp.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802131610.JAA06143@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Feb 13, 98 09:10:45 am 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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : 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 --- 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-hackers" in the body of the message