Janet wrote:
IANAL, SIMBW.
> > * Added the statement "All trademarks within this guide belong to
> > legitimate owners."
> This phrasing strikes me as odd.
Standard legal boilerplate.
> (Could trademarks belong to illegitimate owners?
In a manner of speaking, yes.
Technically, that phrasing is to avoid trademark ingringement suits,
and the consequent "trademark dilution" that takes place.
>Maybe this is a US vs Oz difference?
Oz doesn't have as many ambulance chasers as the us.
>to their respective owners."
I've forgotton the legal distinction between "respective owners" and
"legitimate owners". IIRC, the latter is technically slightly more
accuratte. [ A "respective owner" might not be the "legitimate
owner".
> is to disclaim that we are trying to steal anybody's trademarks.
More a way to acknowledge the IP rights of the legitimate owner.
>(Now if only I could get the programmers I work with to stop
using"(c)", which has no legal meaning at all ...)
It has a "common" meaning. Legally meaningless, but commonly beleived
to be equivelent to the actual glyph. It might, in the dim and
distant future, aquire meaning via case law.
> Perhaps we could bring back the revision history table, and include a column
> for the software version.
Revision History Tables are a PITA to maintain.
I have one for the FAQ I maintain, simply so when I upload the new
version, I can write a sentence saying what was added.
Since I'm adding stuff to that FAQ every two or three days, that
history table looks redundant. [One person that reviewed it, deleted
half of it, because they didn't realize what it was.]
xan
jonathon
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