Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !
Am 05. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Jan Ulrich Hasecke so:
> "Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net> 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 ;-).
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