On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Ralf A. Quint <free...@gmx.net> wrote: > At 05:03 PM 12/22/2011, dmccunney wrote: >>I repeat, be careful of *what*? If you get as C&D letter from them, >>you take it down and apologize. You needn't hire a lawyer or engage >>in a resource-requiring defense. Such letters are warning shots. >>*They* would as soon not *take* you to court. That takes time and >>costs money. They would only do so if they saw a pot of gold at the >>end of a litigation rainbow. > > I think you are a bit on the naive side here. In a lot of cases, a > C&D letter will be accompanied by an invoice from the lawyers of > copyright/trademark owner...
That's a good point. I personally haven't heard of such a thing, but I agree it's possible. I'm still unconvinced anyone would bother in this case, as I don't see a point to doing it. (Though generating spurious legal fees for the lawyer might be one, but would be dangerous turf to work if the layer picked the wrong target. A counter-suit might be deadly.) >But offering AST drivers from a website isn't a trademark >>infringement. You don't call the site AST anything, and you make >>clear that AST is a registered trademark (as far as you can tell) of >>Data Access in France, and no infringement is intended. Trademark >>infringement cases also have money involved. A trademark holder is >>attempting to either prevent someone else from doing business under >>(and getting the benefit of) their trademark, or to prevent confusion >>in the market. > > If this is in this case of AST indeed a "cyber squatter", it is hard > to tell what might trigger their "wrath". They might jump on anything > to make a quick buck without having to actually work for it... They might, but the quick bucks involved would likely need to be more than legal fees for their attorney. > In any case, I think it would be worthwile to try and attempt to make > such drivers available/preserve them. However, I don't think this is > anything that the FreeDOS project itself should get involved in in general. I never suggested it should - merely that the effort was worth making, and likely not that risky. > I have been looking around a bit and the best site, beside some "old > computer museum" web sites is a site called http://www.drivermuseum.com/ > > but some of the info/contact links don't seem to work (haven't tried > the email address provided though). It does look promising, though some links don't work. It's certainly a place to try. > Ralf ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
