On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:07:23PM +0100, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:57:48PM -0800, Jeff Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I notice that recently you have complied with Mozilla's request to not
> > use their trademarks for your browser packages. However, you can't
> > also use their trademark to switch users to a competing product.
> > ("bait-and-switch") The same trademark issues are why there is not a
> > package called openoffice. It must be called openoffice.org.
> >
> > For instance, if Best Buy provided a packaged product called "firefox"
> > that instead had IE or a nearly indistinguishable competing product
> > (iceweasel) this would also be trademark infringement.
>
> It would be infringment if the product was packaged as firefox. In our
> case, the product is iceweasel, we're just hinting people on it.
Plus, iceweasel and firefox are very very close functionally speaking.
Mike
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