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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Devlinks.  Code.  (Dcache abuse?)
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On Mon Nov 19, 2001 at 10:17:29AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > As I understand trademarks, they are granted for a particular context.
> > There is no conflict between "Dove" as a brand name for soap, "Dove"
> > as a brand name for chocolate, and "Dove" as used by bird watchers in
> > their taxonomy.
> 
> We have already had a vendor threaten legal action if we didn't change the
> name of a file system before merging it with the kernel.

Sore losers I guess.  :-)

 -Erik

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