Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Mar 2003 13:20:05 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Never ever use word BitKeeper if Larry does not like you |
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Hi!
> > I would distinguish this from someone who is promoting their own > > product, let's call it BillyBob's Linux, and who makes a claim > > that it is "compatible with Red Hat Linux." So long as the > > compatibility statement is not used prominently in the > > advertising of the product and so long as the statement is, in > > fact, true, this would likely constitute a fair use of our mark, > > roughly along the lines of comparative advertising. > > Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer in any country. > > I think, fellow Stephen, you are missing the point. The example includes a > trade name, "Red Cap" as the trademark for the new system. Now, I am not a > lawyer but I have been exposed to some of the seamer side of trademark > disputes, and "Red Cap" may well fail the trademark confusion test as not > being sufficiently different from the original trademark to avoid a person > from mistaking "Red Cap" for "Red Hat". The same, I assert, is true for > "KitBeeper" and "BitKeeper".
When Larry claims that BitKeeper is too similar to bit bucket, I'll roll on the floor, laughing, and print his words onto the T-shirt. [Bit bucket is jargon term for /dev/null, http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/b/bit_bucket.html]
[I hope you'll at least laugh after long thread full of legaleese.]
Pavel -- Horseback riding is like software... ...vgf orggre jura vgf serr. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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