Re: help grub config (fwd)

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

At 21 Nov 2002 18:08:27 -0500,
Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> That is a bit rude: at least give them the benefit of the doubt; they
> have existed since at least June of 2000[1] when Grub was a bit less
> known than it is today.

Yes, I was rude. That was intentional.

I was thinking of what we could do in this kind of situation, that is,
how we could prevent another project from choosing the same name as
ours, when ours had been present before. Enterprises can make use of
trademark or something, but we can't (or don't want to do), since we
are mostly DIYers and have little money and time.

The disadvantage of such a situation is obvious: users would be
confused. What is the advantage? Probably no advantage for non-profit
people. Only for-profit people would get a kind of advantage. I
remember that Linux was trademarked, because a corporation used the
name for its business in a cowardly way.

So, I complained. They should publicly state that they are confusing
users.

BTW, if hobbyists developed the internet crawler, I wouldn't snap and
snarl. Instead, I would say to them, "Hey, would you mind changing the
name of your project?". In this case, however, they are doing business
with it. That means that they should have had time enough to survey
existing software projects (to avoid the same name), and they _never_
want to consider changing the name, once they started using the
name. Can you believe that those who develop an internet crawler
didn't crawl the internet?

Okuji