On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 05:02:00PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote:
That very important... The screensaver triggered me to see the movie
again. A. I love it.
Yeah, it's gotta be the perfect hacker's movie.
Sneakers is always fun. :)
-d
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On Fri 1999-08-27 (10:25), Nick Hibma wrote:
I seriously doubt they'll win this lawsuit. You can sue someone for
anything and everything, including having a hair color which
^ in the States
Or if you're a US company. Wasn't it (the Irish?) McMuffin which
I seriously doubt they'll win this lawsuit. You can sue someone for
anything and everything, including having a hair color which
^ in the States
Sorry, I've lived in Europe, you can't pull that one on me. :)
In Germany, for example, it's possible to sue someone
In message 8062.935743977@localhost, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
I seriously doubt they'll win this lawsuit. You can sue someone for
anything and everything, including having a hair color which
^ in the States
Sorry, I've lived in Europe, you can't pull that one
Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The third difference is that we only use jurys in murder cases,
we fully realize the ability of a showman-laywer to sway a jury,
therefore we don't use them, unless the issue is the gravest
crime we know off.
That doesn't seem quite valid, it
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ville-Pertti Keinonen writes:
Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The third difference is that we only use jurys in murder cases,
we fully realize the ability of a showman-laywer to sway a jury,
therefore we don't use them, unless the issue is the
Hi,
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
Maybe we *should* go approach the producers? I have gone to that movie
several times, and I keep on enjoying it, so this is GOOD PR for them.
Tell them there will be a reference to the movie web site or something. ;-)
Actually the FreeBSD
Hi again,
http://www.freebsd.ady.ro/news/press-rel-1.html
Whoops, that should have been
http://www.freebsd.org/news/press-rel-1.html
for all you fellows out there (the former is my local mirror)...
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On 27 Aug 1999, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
Of course this is getting off topic, or have there been any
FreeBSD-current related homicides that I haven't heard about? ;--)
Have there even been any actual trials directly related to FreeBSD?
There was a signup sheet going around at the last
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
I'm sorry you got so beaten up over this one. All due respect to the
contributors aside, I think we have too many old women around here,
all shrieking and holding up their skirts at the rumor of a mouse
somewhere in the building. :)
As I said,
On 27.08.1999, 10:52, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
Sorry, I've lived in Europe, you can't pull that one on me. :)
In Germany, for example, it's possible to sue someone simply for
sticking their finger against their forehead. The myth that only the
U.S. is litigious is just that, a myth.
In message 15454.935598612@localhost "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
: I think people are being almost clinically paranoid here. Hasbro and
: folks got upset over TRADEMARK infringement, e.g. from using a name
: they had trademarked. I rather doubt that Warner Bros. have managed
: to trademark the
But it's not going into the tree, no. I think Kevin's point and the
experiences we had with Hasbro should already have convinced people of
that much.
I think people are being almost clinically paranoid here. Hasbro and
folks got upset over TRADEMARK infringement, e.g. from using a name
But it's not going into the tree, no. I think Kevin's point and the
experiences we had with Hasbro should already have convinced people of
that much.
I think people are being almost clinically paranoid here. Hasbro and
folks got upset over TRADEMARK infringement, e.g. from using a
The issue with boggle and tetris wasn't the name, it was "look and feel".
No, it was the name. Believe me, I read the letters we got from their
lawyers. :)
Unless we produce a movie with the name "Matrix" somewhere in it, I
doubt we're going to be in the same boat. Hasbro objected to our
Kevin Day wrote:
...
If this is distributed as a fan based thing, the worst they'd likely do is
say "Take it down.". If this is on thousands of FreeBSD cd's, it could
become a financial problem if they want to take it far enough.
This is just my opinion though, and not to be used as legal
Kevin Day wrote:
...
If this is distributed as a fan based thing, the worst they'd likely do is
say "Take it down.". If this is on thousands of FreeBSD cd's, it could
become a financial problem if they want to take it far enough.
This is just my opinion though, and not to be used
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Let me retract the Ghost in the Shell statement. I just checked, and
my memory played tricks on me. It was a different letter effect. :-)
Andrzej, can you somehow turn it into a parody? If
As Mike Smith wrote ...
Kevin Day wrote:
This is just my opinion though, and not to be used as legal advice for
anyone. I just don't want FreeBSD to become a ball of intellectual property
infringements. :)
Let me retract the Ghost in the Shell statement. I just checked, and
my
Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so
much you could vote for putting it in the tree...
It's extremely small, so why not? Got my vote. :-)
Yes, you have my 7 votes as well (my department thinks it is cool as
well. Or at least that is what I think they
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
A Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so
much you could vote for putting it in the tree...
What do you mean "vote"? I was waiting for it to show up on my tree
after a cvsup!
I hate to keep bringing things like
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
I hate to keep bringing things like this up, or start a legal war, but this
screensaver is more than likely a copyright and/or trademark violation, and
bringing it into the source tree may not be a
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
I hate to keep bringing things like this up, or start a legal war,
but this
screensaver is more than likely a copyright and/or trademark
violation, and
bringing it into the source tree may not
At 06:44 PM 8/22/99 +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
[trademark violation warning]
Ok, maybe you have a point - I dont know, I'm not a lawyer. But with this
line of reasoning they could claim that anything using falling letters
effect on your screen partly
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
I hate to keep bringing things like this up, or start a legal war,
but this
screensaver is more than likely a copyright and/or trademark
According to Narvi:
"Falling letters like in the movie with red bills"
Pill :)
That very important... The screensaver triggered me to see the movie
again. A. I love it.
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FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote:
According to Narvi:
"Falling letters like in the movie with red bills"
Pill :)
That very important... The screensaver triggered me to see the movie
again. A. I love it.
Yeah, it's gotta be the perfect hacker's movie.
Maybe we
Maybe we *should* go approach the producers? I have gone to that movie
several times, and I keep on enjoying it, so this is GOOD PR for them.
Tell them there will be a reference to the movie web site or something. ;-)
Or tell them that the URL to the website appears once in a while in
On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 11:46:14PM +0200, Nick Hibma wrote:
Tell them there will be a reference to the movie web site or something. ;-)
Or tell them that the URL to the website appears once in a while in the
mishmash, sublimal advertisements. Just make sure you speak to the
marketing drones
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote:
According to Narvi:
"Falling letters like in the movie with red bills"
Pill :)
That very important... The screensaver triggered me to see the movie
again. A. I love it.
Yeah, it's gotta be the perfect hacker's movie.
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote:
According to Narvi:
"Falling letters like in the movie with red bills"
Pill :)
That very important... The screensaver triggered me to see the movie
again. A. I love
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
Both versions are available at:
http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_3.2.tgz
http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_4.0.tgz
I knew I should have taken the blue pill.
FWIW, there are at least two other 'matrix'
At 10:26 AM 8/21/99 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
Both versions are available at:
http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_3.2.tgz
http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_4.0.tgz
FWIW, there are at least two other 'matrix'
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 08:10:51PM -0400, Keith Stevenson wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:11:42PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote:
then xlock already includes a module for this... I'm using it on my
laptop..
... ahh. ... Meanwhile I've updated my xlock to xlockmore-4.14 including
'the matrix'.
Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
Hi,
Due to unexpected demand . . .
Ok, I have to say that pretty much rocks. :) Any chance of making an X
version of this? The guy in the cube across from mine and I are both big
science fiction fans, and he would turn *cough* green with envy . . .
Doug
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so
much you could vote for putting it in the tree...
It's extremely small, so why not? Got my vote. :-)
-- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD: The
Kevin Day wrote:
A Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so
much you could vote for putting it in the tree...
What do you mean "vote"? I was waiting for it to show up on my tree
after a cvsup!
I hate to keep bringing things like this up, or start a
Hi,
Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real
work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about
STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also binary versions
to the archives.
Both versions are available at:
oh THAT screen...
quite a giggle..
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
Hi,
Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real
work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about
STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also binary
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:
oh THAT screen...
quite a giggle..
c'mon, you didn't expect me to put an intro scene from the movie, did you?
Yeah, that's something - MPEG screensaver... only a few GB. I need to
think about it.
8-))
Andrzej Bialecki
// [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
c'mon, you didn't expect me to put an intro scene from the movie, did you?
Yeah, that's something - MPEG screensaver... only a few GB. I need to
think about it.
I wonder where in phk's rules for binary files in the tree that would fall.
Just make
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Nick Hibma wrote:
oh THAT screen...
quite a giggle..
Have you seen the source ... very neat and short. Pitty that it consumes
2% intr time.
Oh, there is still much room for improvement here... if there is any
interest, that is. :-)
Andrzej Bialecki
// [EMAIL
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
Hi,
Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real
work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about
STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also binary versions
to the archives.
LOL! I
oh THAT screen...
quite a giggle..
Have you seen the source ... very neat and short. Pitty that it consumes
2% intr time.
Oh, there is still much room for improvement here... if there is any
interest, that is. :-)
Like rewriting the syscons driver again, to make your 10 line
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real
work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about
... I saw the announcement for the first release, realised that
it's only for
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Andreas Braukmann wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real
work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about
... I saw
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:11:42PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote:
I haven't seen Andrzej's screensaver, but if it is about those
green letters that fall from the top of the screen (aka the matrix)
then xlock already includes a module for this... I'm using it on my
laptop..
I like Andrzej's
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Keith Stevenson wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:11:42PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote:
I haven't seen Andrzej's screensaver, but if it is about those
green letters that fall from the top of the screen (aka the matrix)
then xlock already includes a module for this...
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