Am 05. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Jan Ulrich Hasecke so: > "Eric G. Miller" <[email protected]> writes: > > > Protest all you like, but I think Adobe probably has a valid claim of > > trademark infringement. > > Today KIllustrator, tomorrow M$ sues KWord and KOffice. Every project > can be sued this way, it only a question of ill fantasy. In the end > you can only use numbers for your projects. > > If we do not defend our rights, who should? The american way of buying > words out of our languages must be stopped. So I think it is good to > protest.
Actually, this appears to be the German way in this case :). First it's in .de. Second, notice that it's a German word, not an English word, e.g. Illustrator vs. illustrator. He should change it to Killustrator and see if the .us portion of Adobe comes after him ;-). The real problem isn't that it's a normal word being used, but that it appears to be a brand X version of a name brand. It's the 'K "Illustrator"' vs. the 'Adobe "Illustrator"'. Still stupid, but illustrator isn't near as common a word as say word or draw or office. There are also other things that could've been used, e.g. KVectorGraphics, KArtist or probably even K Illustration Package. I don't know if I'd rather have companies getting to trademark words in specific industries or have them throwing in more words, e.g. kleenex, crescent wrench ( the crescent wrench co went out of business long ago ), Q-tip, bandaid, etc. All those stodgy profs in .de deciding to change the language is bad enough[1]. Letting marketing weasels do it is a true horror of modern times ;-). The real problem is that they apparently didn't just ask that he change it. The 4.000 DM bill is what sucks the most. cioa, der.hans [1] I like »Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitänsgesellschaftpräsident« to have 3 fs. Not as good as Pfeiffer »mit 3 F«, but still good ;-). -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- # I took the one less traveled by, # And that has made all the difference. -- Robert Frost # I, OTOH, prefer to just go stomping through the desert... - der.hans
