[WikiEN-l] Firefox (was Re: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly, Dec 2007))

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 14:19:47 UTC 2007


On 22/10/2007, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/22/07, Zoney <zoney.ie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The protection given to trademarks is in fact pretty
> > restricted in many cases - often the same name can be
> > used in another arena. There's a window
> > cleaning company in my area trading as "Windows 2000"
> > and they are perfectly able to do so legally. They
> > aren't in the business of computer software or
> > even anything related to that arena.
>
> That doesn't stop some from trying when a large company really really
> really wants a domain name held by a small one. A good example is
> Hasboro suing Clue Computing for the domain name clue.com.

Ah, domain names are a seperate set of rules - there's only really one
"field" there, you're a company or you're not.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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