Message: 1 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:04:05 +1300 From: "James Pluck" <papabearnz(a)gmail.com> Subject: [wlug] Show Us The Code! To: "WLUG Mailing List" <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Message-ID: <69dff2130702251404j34b3616fl907ff979c9dcd0b0(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
A website asking MS to show the Linux community WHERE they believe the breaches of their IP lie so that those sections can be rewritten to avoid any suspicion of plagiarism.
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Personally I think it would be interesting for Linux vendors to use the Lanham act to ask them to put up or shut up, but I suspect the lawyers would hate that idea too!
Personally I think it would be interesting for Linux vendors to use the Lanham act to ask them to put up or shut up, but I suspect the lawyers would hate that idea too!
Isn't the Lanham act to do with trademarks? Perhaps LMI could go totally NFL and try to prevent Microsoft from even uttering the word "Linux" in public.. force them to refer to it only as "The Big Os" :-)
Isn't the Lanham act to do with trademarks?
Ahhh, I think I found what you were referring to... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanham_Act: Section 43(a)(1)(B) is also often utilized in law when false or misleading statements are alleged to have hurt a business. To be proven in court a claimant must satisfy 3 principles: There was a false or misleading statement made, the statement was used in commercial advertising or promotion, and the statement creates a likelihood of harm to the plaintiff.
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