Trademarks are about preventing brand confusion & reputation damage, they
don't apply to things that are not of the same type (i.e. two different
parties could trademark the same word for software and doorbells or
whatever else, because you as a consumer would not look at one and confuse
it for the other).
I don't think anyone would see "Crossfade (Linux)" and wonder if this was
the same as MS's now defunct "Crossfader (website)"... If you ripped off
their logo then maybe they could say you are trying to confuse people...
It's a bit different with Mixxx software and a X-Mixxx distro...
particularly because the distro prominently features Mixxx software.
Casual users could wonder what the relationship is between the distro and
the Mixxx team, did the Mixxx team build the distro? Do they endorse it?
Are they making money from the donations/advertisements/whatever...
This can be problematic particularly when something is done in poor taste
or poor quality and tied to your brand. (cough, cough spyware/malware
bundling of Mixxx that we saw a few years back)
Anyway, I think "crossfade" would be a fine name, it's functional and it
sounds cool. The RMXXX one is clever too, I hadn't thought of that one,
but I think its less obvious.
Cheers,
-G
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Ronald Stewart <ronaldjstew...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Lastly I would look deeper into name rights with the word Crossfader as I
> know for a fact that this word is a DJ and audio brain child of Microsoft
>
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