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[Jon Fautley]

Geoff Teale wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 05:39 -0500, Jon Fautley wrote:
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>>It just shows the idiocy of some countries legal systems...
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>>Just my 2p...
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>Well Mr. Fautley, how exactly is this idiotic?
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>If I were to set up an I.T. company in the Horsham area with the name
>4ait or better still free-a-i-t do you not feel that it might cause
>confusion, and if I were particularly shoddy do you not feel it would
>reflect badly on 3ait if people confused the names?
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If the company went out to intentionally 'steal' business from me, and 
tried to use my name to sell it's product, i.e. getting an Audi, 
removing the badge, and sticking a BMW badge on it, then selling it as a 
BMW, then yes, i'd be upset.

However, that doesn't seem to be what Lindows is doing. It's called 
Lindows beacuse it's a crossover of Windows and Linux... Lindows and 
Windows are two different products, with two different marketplaces, 
with two different names. Why do Microsoft not go and sue OpenOffice... 
I mean, it's an office suite, it's got office in the name.. my god! 
people will get so confused!

Jon

Incidentally, 3a IT isn't my company - I use 'my' in this email because 
Geoff was aiming the comments at me, as if 3a was my company.