Re: [debian-knoppix] About names
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:07:50PM +0100, Nils Magnus wrote:
> > David GLAUDE, futur author of GLAUDIX (looking for trouble with Albert
> > Ren?/Goscinny-Uberzo author of "Asterix et Obelix").
>
> You are joking, but there has been a very serious lawsuit in Germany
> about that very issue (there is a quite popular website about Linux on
> laptops called "mobilix"). See
>
> http://mobilix.de/mobilix_asterix.html
>
> for details (unfortunately only in german). The lawsuit was won in the
> first instance, but is still pending in the second.
Actally, MobiliX lost the second instance for reasons that sound obscure
to me (well, of course, everybody is confusing a comic character with an
operating system, and will accidentially buy software instead of comics for
that reason, right?).
Regards
-Klaus
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