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| Authored by: PJ on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 02:39 PM EST |
What url do you have for us? And was it
for software? If not, it doesn't count.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- What Hubris? - Authored by: Wol on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 04:56 PM EST
- What Hubris? - Authored by: PJ on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 06:28 PM EST
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| Authored by: PJ on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 06:32 PM EST |
Excuse me, but you are wrong here, Wol. It is
hubris to think they can suddenly extend the
name to software. They know the Python language
exists, because the Python Foundation contacted
them. So it is hubris. They may have used the
name for other things, but never before for
software.
Trademark is in categories. I can sell Linux
detergent, if I want to. Actually someone does,
so I'll sell Linux jewelry or whatever. It's
the category that matters. That's why there is
Apple computers and Apple music. But when Apple
computers started to sell music on iTunes, they had
to go through litigation with Apple music to
settle it out fairly.
Same here. Python got there first using the name
for software. So the other company is the
interloper. It doesn't matter at all that they
had the name for other products for 17 years.
When you sign up for a trademark, in fact (not that
you have to), you sign up for a category of use.
So be careful not to be contrarian just for the
fun of it. Because you are way off base.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- What Hubris? - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 10:12 PM EST
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| Authored by: lnuss on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 08:12 AM EST |
In the US you can lose the trademark if you don't protect it (kleenex, anyone?).
Is that not the case in the UK? Certainly Python the language has been no
secret, and I'd think that all these elapsed years since Python the language
started would have been long enough to lose it.
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- What Hubris? - Authored by: PJ on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 07:47 PM EST
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