On Jul 30, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Rod Whitby wrote:
Ah cripes, who freaking *CARES* about the Graffiti trademark ..
Hmm ... someone could just as well say:
Ah cripes, who freaking *CARES* about the OpenMoko trademark ..
Is someone actually developing something which uses the OpenMoko
Worrying about worrying about the trademark issue is even more irrelevant.
Pointing things like this out early is a good thing. Further discussion
about the trademark issue isn't necessary, though, it's annoying.
Ortwin
On 7/30/07, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jul 30, 2007, at 7:50
Agreed. So can we try to maintain focus on the immediate tactical
and technical advances that we can actually accomplish?
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On Jul 30, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Ortwin Regel wrote:
Worrying about worrying about the trademark issue is even more
irrelevant.
Pointing things like this out early is
On 30 Jul 2007, at 11:21, Ortwin Regel wrote:
Worrying about worrying about the trademark issue is even more
irrelevant.
Pointing things like this out early is a good thing. Further
discussion about the trademark issue isn't necessary, though, it's
annoying.
What if they contribute
Jay Vaughan wrote:
it just happens that Graffiti is what people know finger painting on
your PDA to be .. its common enough to warrant usage as a word
referring to the activity of finger-painting symbols for recognition
on a devices surface.
No, sorry, this is incorrect, and precisely _why_ I
I just think it's a bit rich to be following this project if you
don't care about creative freedom. I'd much sooner create a new
input system anyway.
i'm rather fond of using xyz position sensors to roll balls around
word-chains, myself .. in my opinion there definitely ought to be
more
Giles Jones wrote:
Except that OpenMoko is a completely made up phrase which has no other
use in the English language.
That's completely irrelevant, I'm afraid. (By the way, there was a Cafe
Moko right around the corner from my hotel in London; I've got a
picture of the sign someplace...)
On 30 Jul 2007, at 15:35, David Lefty Schlesinger wrote:
Trademarks exist in specific contexts for particular usages,
they're not
a global thing. I'm obligated to deal with trademark law as I find it;
if you wish it were something different, you'll need to write your
Congressional
So by using fingers instead of a stylus we're not talking about the
same use case anyway.
That's certainly not clear to me.
Are you policing this project for violations?
Not at all, that's a silly idea; as I've said, I simply _am_ obligated
to point out when a trademark held by my employer is
On Jul 30, 2007, at 4:35 PM, David Lefty Schlesinger wrote:
Trademarks exist in specific contexts for particular usages,
they're not
a global thing. I'm obligated to deal with trademark law as I find it;
if you wish it were something different, you'll need to write your
Congressional
On 30 Jul 2007, at 16:08, David Schlesinger wrote:
Not at all, that's a silly idea; as I've said, I simply _am_ obligated
to point out when a trademark held by my employer is being misused,
and
that's simply a condition of having the trademark.
True, but these are just ramblings, the
Bah, forget graffiti! It's too difficult; the computer should be able to
help you with it, but it doesn't. It essentially says do this unnecessary
work. Using graffiti is like using a help file. (And I have a pretty long
rant on those somewhere).
If a really clever person sat down and drew lots
Giles Jones writes:
Are you policing this project for violations?
Look, he pointed out a potential trademark issue, which will have to
be considered if some sort of ungraffiti is to be distributed. There
really isn't any reason to keep going on about it.
Are you policing this project for violations?
Look, he pointed out a potential trademark issue, which will have to
be considered if some sort of ungraffiti is to be distributed. There
really isn't any reason to keep going on about it.
right. so how would this ungraffiti work, exactly?
in the text
recognition. Also, a find as you write feature will be handy for finding
folders in the main menu, names in the contact list or numbers in the logs,
basically reducing scrolling through areas that aren't primarily text based.
The benefits of this finger graffiti are that it has a learning
David \Lefty\ Schlesinger writes:
Graffiti (as it pertains to handwriting systems) is a registered
trademark of ACCESS Systems Americas, not a generic term; you want to
find some alternate terminology.
Sorry, gotta point it out, it's part of my job...
Much as I've liked Graffiti on my Palm...
On 30 Jul 2007, at 01:38, David Lefty Schlesinger wrote:
Graffiti (as it pertains to handwriting systems) is a registered
trademark of ACCESS Systems Americas, not a generic term; you want
to find some alternate terminology.
Sorry, gotta point it out, it's part of my job...
It's a
Michael Welter writes:
So, who are they going to sue???
Who said anything about a lawsuit? It is their trademark; stepping on
it would be really rude, no matter who they decided to go after as a
result.
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Michael Welter writes:
So, who are they going to sue???
Who said anything about a lawsuit? It is their trademark; stepping on
it would be really rude, no matter who they decided to go after as a
result.
Ah cripes, who freaking *CARES* about the Graffiti trademark .. can't
you just
I think David went about it as well as he could.. although I feel by using
Graffiti-like Nkoli did not breach trademark rights, just used it as an
example. We do need to come up with another name in the near future,
because we cannot release software called Graffiti.
I know most of us are
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