On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: > >>>> It's very simple, Joerg, first to integrate wins. >>> >>> WRONG: in the OSS world the first user os a name wins and the imagemagick >>> name >>> is thus illegal. >> >> Says who? And who keeps the record or registry? > > > Do you like to ignore that my compare is genric and thus correctly using > the name and that it is 20 years older than imagemagick?
"compare" as a word dates back to probably 1000BC when the latin language developed. Its use in english is post-norman, though, being imported from french, but even that makes the english word almost thousand years old. What, except a) that I was tortured with Latin in school, and b) that I can sound quite patronizing if I chose to, does that prove ? Generic words can't be trademarked. That's why everyone can call their stuff "Windows", Microsoft lost a corresponding lawsuit a few years ago. You chose a simple english word, you can't claim exclusive rights to it. A prefix/suffix, "schily_compare", or at least as you do it with the other utilities that you wrote, "scompare", would come closer to trademark-able terms, as Apple/Intel are demonstrating with the "iStuff". For name collisions, there's always PATH to sort out your preference. /usr/bin vs. /usr/ucb vs. /usr/xpg4/bin vs. /usr/xpg6/bin comes to mind. The world isn't out there to get you. Really. Btw, PSARC knows something like a "minority vote". You can leave a record there saying you disagree with something, and state the reasons. Which is even possible if you're not a voting member. It goes on record and allows you righteousness later, "you should've listened see what happened". Whether that's a useful thing to do is another question, but it's really going too far now ... FrankH. > > >>> Because if Sun does not rename the image magick program Sun verifies that >>> PSARC discussions are just to fool people but do not have useful resaults. >> >> Remember Joerg, being listened to is NOT the same as getting your way. > > It is just another chance to verify that there is collaboration on OpenSolaris > and not just ignorant domination from Sun..... > > Do we have an OpenSolaris community or is this just a fake? > > The real compare is 20 years older and I did _warn_ _before_ the name appeared > in /usr/bin. For this reason, this is an important bug in Solaris Express. > > J?rg > > -- > EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 > Berlin > js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) > schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No good can come from selling your freedom, not for all the gold in the world, for the value of this heavenly gift far exceeds that of any fortune on earth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
