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Re: Trademarks: what is the line?



On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 12:06:06PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:44:33 +0000 Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 
> > It's not a major problem, because you can generate an unarguably free
> > work once by stripping it, and then everybody can modify the stripped
> > version instead.
> 
> That's true, but...
> ...what's the difference between a trademark-encumbered work and a
> patent-encumbered one?

Trademarks are easier to strip. That's pretty much it.

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