On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 05:02:00PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> > That very important... The screensaver triggered me to see the movie
> > again. A. I love it.
>
> Yeah, it's gotta be the perfect hacker's movie.
Sneakers is always fun. :)
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"Mark S. Reichman" wrote:
>
> Another reason less lawsuits of this type are tried in Europe
> is because the loser pays all court costs.
> In the US a person will name everyone and anyone
> remotely associated with the supposed wrong doing in hopes of a
> big payoff. Each person must then hire a
On 27.08.1999, 10:52, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> Sorry, I've lived in Europe, you can't pull that one on me. :)
> In Germany, for example, it's possible to sue someone simply for
> sticking their finger against their forehead. The myth that only the
> U.S. is litigious is just that, a myth.
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> I'm sorry you got so beaten up over this one. All due respect to the
> contributors aside, I think we have too many old women around here,
> all shrieking and holding up their skirts at the rumor of a mouse
> somewhere in the building. :)
As I sai
On 27 Aug 1999, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
> Of course this is getting off topic, or have there been any
> FreeBSD-current related homicides that I haven't heard about? ;--)
> Have there even been any actual trials directly related to FreeBSD?
There was a signup sheet going around at the last
Hi,
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > Maybe we *should* go approach the producers? I have gone to that movie
> > several times, and I keep on enjoying it, so this is GOOD PR for them.
>
> Tell them there will be a reference to the movie web site or something. ;-)
Actually the FreeBS
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> http://www.freebsd.ady.ro/news/press-rel-1.html
Whoops, that should have been
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for all you fellows out there (the former is my local mirror)...
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ville-Pertti Keinonen writes:
>
>Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> The third difference is that we only use jurys in murder cases,
>> we fully realize the ability of a showman-laywer to sway a jury,
>> therefore we don't use them, unless the issue i
Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The third difference is that we only use jurys in murder cases,
> we fully realize the ability of a showman-laywer to sway a jury,
> therefore we don't use them, unless the issue is the gravest
> crime we know off.
That doesn't seem quite valid, i
In message <8062.935743977@localhost>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>> > I seriously doubt they'll win this lawsuit. You can sue someone for
>> > anything and everything, including having a hair color which
>>
>>^ in the States
>
>Sorry, I've lived in Europe, you can't p
> > I seriously doubt they'll win this lawsuit. You can sue someone for
> > anything and everything, including having a hair color which
>
> ^ in the States
Sorry, I've lived in Europe, you can't pull that one on me. :)
In Germany, for example, it's possible to sue so
On Fri 1999-08-27 (10:25), Nick Hibma wrote:
> > I seriously doubt they'll win this lawsuit. You can sue someone for
> > anything and everything, including having a hair color which
>
> ^ in the States
Or if you're a US company. Wasn't it (the Irish?) McMuffin which M
> I seriously doubt they'll win this lawsuit. You can sue someone for
> anything and everything, including having a hair color which
^ in the States
> displeases you, of course, but whether you actually win the lawsuit or
> have it thrown out is a different mat
In message <5644.935710460@localhost> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
: I seriously doubt they'll win this lawsuit. You can sue someone for
: anything and everything, including having a hair color which
: displeases you, of course, but whether you actually win the lawsuit or
: have it thrown out is a
I seriously doubt they'll win this lawsuit. You can sue someone for
anything and everything, including having a hair color which
displeases you, of course, but whether you actually win the lawsuit or
have it thrown out is a different matter.
- Jordan
> In message <15454.935598612@localhost> "Jo
In message <15454.935598612@localhost> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
: I think people are being almost clinically paranoid here. Hasbro and
: folks got upset over TRADEMARK infringement, e.g. from using a name
: they had trademarked. I rather doubt that Warner Bros. have managed
: to trademark th
I'm sorry you got so beaten up over this one. All due respect to the
contributors aside, I think we have too many old women around here,
all shrieking and holding up their skirts at the rumor of a mouse
somewhere in the building. :)
- Jordan
> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > Just
> The issue with boggle and tetris wasn't the name, it was "look and feel".
No, it was the name. Believe me, I read the letters we got from their
lawyers. :)
Unless we produce a movie with the name "Matrix" somewhere in it, I
doubt we're going to be in the same boat. Hasbro objected to our
hav
> > But it's not going into the tree, no. I think Kevin's point and the
> > experiences we had with Hasbro should already have convinced people of
> > that much.
>
> I think people are being almost clinically paranoid here. Hasbro and
> folks got upset over TRADEMARK infringement, e.g. from u
> But it's not going into the tree, no. I think Kevin's point and the
> experiences we had with Hasbro should already have convinced people of
> that much.
I think people are being almost clinically paranoid here. Hasbro and
folks got upset over TRADEMARK infringement, e.g. from using a name
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> Just make it a port, for crap's sake, and distribute it from Poland.
> By the time WB's American lawyers work out where you are on the map,
> the statute of limitations will have expired and you'll be fine.
>
> But it's not going into the tree, no. I
As Mike Smith wrote ...
> > Kevin Day wrote:
> > > This is just my opinion though, and not to be used as legal advice for
> > > anyone. I just don't want FreeBSD to become a ball of intellectual property
> > > infringements. :)
> >
> > Let me retract the Ghost in the Shell statement. I just chec
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
>
> >
> > Let me retract the Ghost in the Shell statement. I just checked, and
> > my memory played tricks on me. It was a different letter effect. :-)
> >
> > Andrzej, can you somehow turn it into a p
> Kevin Day wrote:
> >
> ...
> > If this is distributed as a fan based thing, the worst they'd likely do is
> > say "Take it down.". If this is on thousands of FreeBSD cd's, it could
> > become a financial problem if they want to take it far enough.
> >
> > This is just my opinion though, and no
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Kevin Day wrote:
> >
> ...
> > If this is distributed as a fan based thing, the worst they'd likely do is
> > say "Take it down.". If this is on thousands of FreeBSD cd's, it could
> > become a financial problem if they want to take it far enough.
>
Kevin Day wrote:
>
...
> If this is distributed as a fan based thing, the worst they'd likely do is
> say "Take it down.". If this is on thousands of FreeBSD cd's, it could
> become a financial problem if they want to take it far enough.
>
> This is just my opinion though, and not to be used as
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> >
> > > According to Narvi:
> > > > "Falling letters like in the movie with red bills"
> > >
> > > Pill :)
> > >
> > > That very important... The screensaver triggered me to see the movie
> >
> On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote:
>
> > According to Narvi:
> > > "Falling letters like in the movie with red bills"
> >
> > Pill :)
> >
> > That very important... The screensaver triggered me to see the movie
> > again. A. I love it.
>
> Yeah, it's gotta be the perfect hacke
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Narvi wrote:
> If we wanted to be legally paranoid we would call it the "letter" saver
> and add as the comment the words
>
> "Falling letters like in the movie with red bills"
Red pills, rather?
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On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 11:46:14PM +0200, Nick Hibma wrote:
> > Tell them there will be a reference to the movie web site or something. ;-)
> Or tell them that the URL to the website appears once in a while in the
> mishmash, sublimal advertisements. Just make sure you speak to the
> marketing dro
> > Maybe we *should* go approach the producers? I have gone to that movie
> > several times, and I keep on enjoying it, so this is GOOD PR for them.
>
> Tell them there will be a reference to the movie web site or something. ;-)
Or tell them that the URL to the website appears once in a while
> This is just my opinion though, and not to be used as legal advice for
> anyone. I just don't want FreeBSD to become a ball of intellectual property
> infringements. :)
And to be honest, you are arguing well. It's also fairly easy to
implement a patchset for this and keep the source separate,
Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote:
>
> > According to Narvi:
> > > "Falling letters like in the movie with red bills"
> >
> > Pill :)
> >
> > That very important... The screensaver triggered me to see the movie
> > again. A. I love it.
>
> Yeah, it's gotta b
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Narvi:
> > "Falling letters like in the movie with red bills"
>
> Pill :)
>
> That very important... The screensaver triggered me to see the movie
> again. A. I love it.
Yeah, it's gotta be the perfect hacker's movie.
Maybe we
According to Narvi:
> "Falling letters like in the movie with red bills"
Pill :)
That very important... The screensaver triggered me to see the movie
again. A. I love it.
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On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I hate to keep bringing things like this up, or start a legal war,
> > but this
> > > > screensaver is more than likely a copyright and/
At 06:44 PM 8/22/99 +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
>
>[trademark violation warning]
>
>Ok, maybe you have a point - I dont know, I'm not a lawyer. But with this
>line of reasoning they could claim that anything using falling letters
>effect on your screen par
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
[trademark violation warning]
Ok, maybe you have a point - I dont know, I'm not a lawyer. But with this
line of reasoning they could claim that anything using falling letters
effect on your screen partly violates they trademarked special effect,
which is sil
>On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I hate to keep bringing things like this up, or start a legal war,
> but this
> > > screensaver is more than likely a copyright and/or trademark
> violation, and
> > > bringing it into the
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
>
> >
> > I hate to keep bringing things like this up, or start a legal war, but this
> > screensaver is more than likely a copyright and/or trademark violation, and
> > bringing it into the source tree may
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
> A> Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so
> > > much you could vote for putting it in the tree...
> >
> >What do you mean "vote"? I was waiting for it to show up on my tree
> >after a cvsup!
>
> I hate to keep bringing thi
> > Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so
> > much you could vote for putting it in the tree...
>
> It's extremely small, so why not? Got my vote. :-)
Yes, you have my 7 votes as well (my department thinks it is cool as
well. Or at least that is what I think t
> Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so
> much you could vote for putting it in the tree...
My vote is a resounding "Yes!".
M
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Kevin Day wrote:
>
> A> Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so
> > > much you could vote for putting it in the tree...
> >
> >What do you mean "vote"? I was waiting for it to show up on my tree
> >after a cvsup!
>
> I hate to keep bringing things like this up, o
A> Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so
> > much you could vote for putting it in the tree...
>
>What do you mean "vote"? I was waiting for it to show up on my tree
>after a cvsup!
I hate to keep bringing things like this up, or start a legal war, but this
scr
Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>
> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
>
> > FWIW, there are at least two other 'matrix' implementations out there.
> > One is part of xscreensaver, and is quite nice -- it's even better if you
> > halve the size of the image it's using first. This has the advantage
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so
> much you could vote for putting it in the tree...
It's extremely small, so why not? Got my vote. :-)
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On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
> FWIW, there are at least two other 'matrix' implementations out there.
> One is part of xscreensaver, and is quite nice -- it's even better if you
> halve the size of the image it's using first. This has the advantage that
> the characters actually look
Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Due to unexpected demand . . .
Ok, I have to say that pretty much rocks. :) Any chance of making an X
version of this? The guy in the cube across from mine and I are both big
science fiction fans, and he would turn *cough* green with envy . . .
Doug
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 08:10:51PM -0400, Keith Stevenson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:11:42PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote:
> > then xlock already includes a module for this... I'm using it on my
> > laptop..
... ahh. ... Meanwhile I've updated my xlock to xlockmore-4.14 including
'the matri
At 10:26 AM 8/21/99 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> > Both versions are available at:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_3.2.tgz
> > http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_4.0.tgz
>FWIW, there are at least two other
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> Both versions are available at:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_3.2.tgz
> http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_4.0.tgz
I knew I should have taken the blue pill.
FWIW, there are at least two other 'matrix'
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Keith Stevenson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:11:42PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote:
> >
> > I haven't seen Andrzej's screensaver, but if it is about those
> > green letters that fall from the top of the screen (aka the matrix)
> > then xlock already includes a module for
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:11:42PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote:
>
> I haven't seen Andrzej's screensaver, but if it is about those
> green letters that fall from the top of the screen (aka the matrix)
> then xlock already includes a module for this... I'm using it on my
> laptop..
I like Andrzej'
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Andreas Braukmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> > Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real
> > work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about
> ... I
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real
> work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about
... I saw the announcement for the first release, realised that
it's only for -curre
> > > oh THAT screen...
> > >
> > > quite a giggle..
> >
> > Have you seen the source ... very neat and short. Pitty that it consumes
> > 2% intr time.
>
> Oh, there is still much room for improvement here... if there is any
> interest, that is. :-)
Like rewriting the syscons driver again, to
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real
> work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about
> STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also binary versions
> to the archives.
>
L
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Nick Hibma wrote:
> > oh THAT screen...
> >
> > quite a giggle..
>
> Have you seen the source ... very neat and short. Pitty that it consumes
> 2% intr time.
Oh, there is still much room for improvement here... if there is any
interest, that is. :-)
Andrzej Bialecki
//
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> c'mon, you didn't expect me to put an intro scene from the movie, did you?
> Yeah, that's something - MPEG screensaver... only a few GB. I need to
> think about it.
I wonder where in phk's rules for binary files in the tree that would fall.
Just ma
> oh THAT screen...
>
> quite a giggle..
Have you seen the source ... very neat and short. Pitty that it consumes
2% intr time.
Nick
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On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:
> oh THAT screen...
>
> quite a giggle..
c'mon, you didn't expect me to put an intro scene from the movie, did you?
Yeah, that's something - MPEG screensaver... only a few GB. I need to
think about it.
8-))
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oh THAT screen...
quite a giggle..
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real
> work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about
> STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also bin
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:34:31 +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>
> > Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real
> > work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about
> > STABLE), and corrected some incon
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:34:31 +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real
> work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about
> STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also binary versions
> to the archive
Hi,
Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real
work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about
STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also binary versions
to the archives.
Both versions are available at:
http://www.freebsd.or
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