Re: [jug-discussion] Sun will trademark anything

2002-11-14 Thread Simon Ritchie
Warner Onstine wrote: A, someone from Sun on the list (hides head in shame ;-). Actually, not just someone from Sun. Rob is the Chairman of the JCP (sm). - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comman

Re: [jug-discussion] Sun will trademark anything

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Gingell
Warner Onstine wrote: > A, someone from Sun on the list (hides head in shame ;-). Apologies for the sneak attack -- no way anyone could know I lurk here. And, we all find Dilbert funny for a reason -- companies and organizations do sometimes do things that at least look silly even if in fact

Re: [jug-discussion] Sun will trademark anything

2002-11-13 Thread Warner Onstine
A, someone from Sun on the list (hides head in shame ;-). On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 06:16 PM, Rob Gingell wrote: For those of you who don't know SM - stands for Service Mark. Now why in the world would Sun put a service mark on this? Because it embeds a trademark. Yeah, I reali

Re: [jug-discussion] Sun will trademark anything

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Gingell
>For those of you who don't know SM - stands for Service Mark. Now why >in the world would Sun put a service mark on this? Because it embeds a trademark. Thank the lawyers -- both the ones that are overly protective but of course also the ones who defend clients who abuse trademarks when you do

[jug-discussion] Sun will trademark anything

2002-11-13 Thread Warner Onstine
I just got the latest Java Developer Connection in my mail box and noticed this: Read about the next evolution of the Java Community ProcessSM (JCPSM), version 2.5. (October 31, 2002) For those of you who don't know SM - stands for Service Mark. Now why in the world would Sun put a service mark