Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:39:57PM +0000, Ross Burton wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:15 +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 09:26:55PM -0800, Peter Gordon wrote: >>>> Using childlish references (such as "M$" and "Microvell") is immature >>>> and does nothing to further your point. Likewise, name-calling will >>>> always strongly discredit your argument, irrelevant to whether or not >>>> you are correct. >>> Actually, if you want to be absolutely sure you won't step on >>> trademarks, they're suddenly not so childish anymore... >> I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to call a company by it's name when I'm >> talking about said company. If not, then there are larger fish to fry. >> Only today I heard the BBC say "Microsoft". Oh no, I've done it again! >> Aaiiiiiie! > > Me too, but I prefer not to prove it in court.
If Microsoft is going to frivolously sue you, they'd have better luck claiming defamation because you said "Micro$oft" than they would claiming trademark infringment because you said "Microsoft". -- Dan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
