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No theft, it's `trademark dilution'No theft, it's `trademark dilution'Posted May 16, 2003 12:33 UTC (Fri) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)In reply to: When a thief is charged... by roskegg Parent article: Christopher Blizzard of mozilla.org Speaks on the Firebird Naming Conflict (MozillaZine)
Dear me, now we're calling it `theft' to reuse a common name? Before you get even more worked up, think about how the MPAA and the RIAA are characterizing fair use of copyrighted material, look at what RMS has to say on`theft' wrt copyright, or on different laws for granting monopolies on ideas, then think carefully about your choice of words. If we get too wound up in our furor, some concepts we hold very dear (including running Free Software, should Microsoft's Palladium ever take hold) may end up on the trash-heap of history. Best wishes,Max Hyre
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