On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:43:56PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > I would believe the ethical way to deal with an opensource developer, > who doesn't profit from his products is to contact him first, rather > than throw a bunch of law dogs at him. After all what kind of a person > or company would want to levy a financial burden on a man who has > contributed his time and resources, for a community benifit . Would > you wan't to do that to Abe L. ? Adobe did no such thing .
Ain't no benefit to Adobe if KIllustrator actually becomes competive. I understand your point that maybe Adobe should've contacted the developer in a less threatening manner first... I don't imagine Adobe will persue this matter unless the KIllustrator authors don't change the name. If they continued to pursue civil damages after a name change, then I can see getting a bit irate. [snip] > Perhaps you may also agree that X Windows ought to naturally sue > Microsoft for a trademark infringement ? This among other interesting > points to ponder on are in the long streem of replies in the slashdot > thread . I hope people will have a look at it. Nope. It's the "X Window System", not "X Windows". And I generally avoid Slashdot -- the signal to noise ratio is too low most of the time. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
