Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 15 June 2010 00:17, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I happen to know there is an English phrase "Doctor, heal >> thyself." >> >> You probably ANAL. But that doesn't stop you from FUDDing. >> > > I'm an anal non-lawyer, at that! I may be spreading uncertainty and > doubt and something that is very uncertain and doubtful, but I don't > think anyone is particularly frightened by anything I'm saying. > > >> Tardises are antiquated visual whatchamacallits, but not >> even remotely "trademarks". >> > > Now you are just embarrassing yourself. Check your facts: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2352743.stm > > You are probably expecting me to eat crow here.
I seriously doubt anyone would have a problem with usage of the textual expression "police whatever box", but the visual representation of what most people would think was a _TARDIS_, and nothing to do with police, would be a mite jarring. On the same level, I would really think somebody using the puzzle globe on their site (or even a non-trivially distinguishable mock-up) was pushing their luck. The word "wiki" seriously, you really should take it in, is *not* something defensibly ours. So yes, if you really want to consider me embarrased by the fact that I was talking about words that are very live and current, rather than antiquated images only surviving because of a popular culture connection... ...you have to be a very sick puppy indeed. Takes much more than that to embarrass me. >> You are claiming the law is complicated. But the facts are >> plain and simple, and no amount of FUDD is going to support >> a view that there is any reasonable justification (by moral >> or juridifical standards) to claim WMF is the body to apply >> for permission to use "wiki" on something. That just ain't >> gonna happen, *nohow*. Sorry. That is just a fact. Don't try >> to squirm. >> > > You can repeat it as much as you like. That doesn't make it so. > Indeed, the cards speak for themselves. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
