>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:05:57 -0400 (EDT) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard J. Sexton (At work)) > >Path: >ns3.vrx.net!news2.best.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.ntr.net!remarQ60!rQdQ!supernews.com!remarQ.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail >From: "Andy D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains >Subject: legal questions >Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 04:37:23 GMT >Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com >Lines: 12 >Message-ID: <01bef433$b46cef20$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Complaints-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 >Xref: ns3.vrx.net comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:8156 > > > Hello, would like some help with a domain name question. I have been using >the name dbase.com for over 6 years as an extention of my old BBS called >Database BBS. dBASE, Inc. who apparently has bought the rights to the old >dBASE (database) program from Borland is demanding I give the name to them. >What are the options and recent legal decisions on these matters? As I have >understood it so far, as long as I am in a different business and not >captializing on the dbase name association, I am OK. I use it as a support >board for customers for my auto business. Unrelated, and don't benefit from >"their" hits. Thanks in advance for the help. If you would like to respond >direct I am [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy > > -- "So foul a sky clears not without a storm" - Shakespeare
