Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Sent: 15 Apr 2002 15:31:30 GMT Subject: Re: GNU/Windows From: Chris Tooley To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: jg@jguk.org In-Reply-To: <20020415152605.GC6372@redhat.com> References: <3CBA5348.5030805@jguk.org> <20020415043615.GA1007@redhat.com> <3CBAB7EB.3090801@jguk.org> <20020415152605.GC6372@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 15 Apr 2002 10:31:46 -0500 Message-Id: <1018884706.2329.8.camel@itspec.amoa.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 10:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:22:19PM +0900, J. Grant wrote: > >The idea was from a conversation I had with some co-workers, not > >entirely seriously but thank you for your reply setting the facts > >straight. > > So, sending this email RMS was a joke, then? Are you guys personal > friends who enjoy a good laugh? Or did you just forge the header? > > >Windows has been established as a reasonable generic word IMO, with the > >Lindows case this was hinted at reciently. > > You're aware of what the term "arguably" means, right? Even the possibility that it could be construed as a trademark infringemnet means paying lawyers and consuming time, meaning it's just not worth it most of the time. Someone like Richardson at Lindows can fight battles like that (I really think he enjoys court more than development), but real development teams should be doing development not fight trademark infringement, it's a pointless waste of resources. Chris Tooley > > cgf > > >Even if that was not the case, we can't use the word "Windows" in this > >connotation since there are, arguably, trademark issues with doing > >that. > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/