>For those of you who don't know SM - stands for Service Mark. Now why >in the world would Sun put a service mark on this?
Because it embeds a trademark. Thank the lawyers -- both the ones that are overly protective but of course also the ones who defend clients who abuse trademarks when you don't dot every i and cross every t. We certainly don't do it because we like it, it's a considerable pain to deal with, but trademark and branding law requires you be diligent in everyday actions to have standing to defend it. >Uggh, next they'll patent the "process", cuz no one else has done this >type of stuff before! No, it hasn't/isn't being patented. That said, I don't know of any other (active) binary standard in the industry. I'd forward the note to the lawyers to give them a chuckle but fear that they might observe that "community" isn't really trademarked yet...or worse, take the patenting thing seriously :-). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
