At 05:03 PM 12/22/2011, dmccunney wrote: >I repeat, be careful of *what*? If you get as C&D letter from them, >you take it down and apologize. You needn't hire a lawyer or engage >in a resource-requiring defense. Such letters are warning shots. >*They* would as soon not *take* you to court. That takes time and >costs money. They would only do so if they saw a pot of gold at the >end of a litigation rainbow.
I think you are a bit on the naive side here. In a lot of cases, a C&D letter will be accompanied by an invoice from the lawyers of copyright/trademark owner... >But offering AST drivers from a website isn't a trademark >infringement. You don't call the site AST anything, and you make >clear that AST is a registered trademark (as far as you can tell) of >Data Access in France, and no infringement is intended. Trademark >infringement cases also have money involved. A trademark holder is >attempting to either prevent someone else from doing business under >(and getting the benefit of) their trademark, or to prevent confusion >in the market. If this is in this case of AST indeed a "cyber squatter", it is hard to tell what might trigger their "wrath". They might jump on anything to make a quick buck without having to actually work for it... In any case, I think it would be worthwile to try and attempt to make such drivers available/preserve them. However, I don't think this is anything that the FreeDOS project itself should get involved in in general. I have been looking around a bit and the best site, beside some "old computer museum" web sites is a site called http://www.drivermuseum.com/ but some of the info/contact links don't seem to work (haven't tried the email address provided though). Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
