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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:14:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, koshy@india.hp.com,
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Subject: Re: General policy on trademark violations
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I think our policy should be to change the name of the program in
question. this includes changing history..
a global replace in the ,v files would probably fix it.
after renaming theh appropriate files, it should all still work
but with a different name, even versions checked out with -D "last year".

On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Fri, 13 February 1998 at 15:06:26 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > What Hasbro care about is being able to sell Boggle on the strength
> > of its name.  If they don't pursue *everyone* violating the trademark,
> > they lose it.  As soon as they lose it, there are dozens of offshore
> > companies that will start marketting Boggle clones, eating Hasbro's
> > market, and hitting their bottom line.
> >
> > _That_ is the issue here.
> 
> Is this all they're asking?  A name change would solve that.  This
> sounds very different from the issue with Tetris a few months back.
> 
> Greg
> 
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