Re: Harassment

2003-08-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 01:19, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:07:27 +0100, Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:41:02PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: [snip] > I think it tells volumes about his judgment -- or lack > thereof. So how much creden

Re: Harassment

2003-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:07:27 +0100, Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:41:02PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: >> *plonk* yourself. >> >> killfiled I am FED up with you. > If you killfile Colin Watson, you obviously dont want good > advice. Therefore I suggest you unsu

Re: Harassment

2003-08-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
, Alan Connor wrote: >=20 >=20 >=20 > *=20 >This is a computer-generated response =20 > *****=20 >=20 > Greetings,=20 >=20 > Sorry about this, but ther

Re: Harassment

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:57, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > I wasn't trying to harass anyone. I just replied to the thread and sent > a copy to Alan Connor. I usually respond to both the list and people's > email address, most people don't mind this. Some do and I try not to do > it to the people that do

Re: Harassment

2003-08-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 01:46:00PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: >=20 >=20 >=20 > *=20 >This is a computer-generated response =20 >

Re: Harassment

2003-08-14 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:04:27AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > I definitely did not harass you on purpose. I simply replid to a message > > in this thread and sent a copy to you as well. Then I got your C-R > > message and replied to that. Then I was bombarded by 100s of co

Re: Harassment

2003-08-14 Thread Joey Hess
Bijan Soleymani wrote: > I definitely did not harass you on purpose. I simply replid to a message > in this thread and sent a copy to you as well. Then I got your C-R > message and replied to that. Then I was bombarded by 100s of copies of > my response to your C-R challenge. Moral of this story:

Re: Harassment

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:52:06PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > If you killfile Colin Watson, you obviously dont want good advice. Therefore > > I suggest you unsubscribe as you have no reason left for being on the > > list. > > Omigod! He's killfiled Col

Re: Harassment

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 18:36:20 2003 > > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:53:17AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:10:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > S`econd-of-all, MORE people here agree with me than disagree with > > > me. They simply don't post their

Re: Harassment

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
. Also, I don't see what was harassing about the whole thing. If anything, we should be the ones calling you on harassment. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things t

Re: Harassment

2003-08-14 Thread tallison
> S`econd-of-all, MORE people here agree with me than disagree with me. > They simply don't post their opinions on the list for fear of being > attacked > by the pro-spam faction here. > > So they mail me instead. That's fine. > > > Alan > You're delusional. Pro-Spam Faction? WTF? -- To UNS

Re: Harassment

2003-08-14 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:41:02PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > *plonk* yourself. > > killfiled > I am FED up with you. If you killfile Colin Watson, you obviously dont want good advice. Therefore I suggest you unsubscribe as you have no reason left for being on the list. [I would have sent this

Re: Harassment

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 02:00:09 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:53:17AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:10:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > "The lurkers support me in e-mail" has been a standard net.kook claim > for quite some time

Re: Harassment

2003-08-11 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 19:12:24 2003 > > > Alan Connor wrote: > > >First-of-all, if you think this thread doesn't belong on the list, then > >why did you respond to it? > > > > > Ah yes... the ol' "Ad Hominem" argument falacy > > "Gee officer... I was speeding? Well, if you p

Re: Harassment

2003-08-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:06:59PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Here's the Person who's been harassing me: Like we care. Take it through the proper channels. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `.

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:07:27PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:41:02PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > *plonk* yourself. > > > > killfiled > > I am FED up with you. > > If you killfile Colin Watson, you obviously dont want good advice. Therefore > I suggest you unsubscr

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Joe Emenaker
Alan Connor wrote: First-of-all, if you think this thread doesn't belong on the list, then why did you respond to it? Ah yes... the ol' "Ad Hominem" argument falacy "Gee officer... I was speeding? Well, if you pulled me over, then you must have been speeding, too. So YOU'RE under arre

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:53:17AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:10:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > S`econd-of-all, MORE people here agree with me than disagree with me. > > They simply don't post their opinions on the list for fear of being attacked > > by the pr

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 17:03:39 2003 > > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:06:59PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > > Here's the Person who's been harassing me: > > > > > > What does this have to do with Debian? > > If you want sympathy, I think this might not be the place to get it,

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:00:47 -0700 Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless the dude harrassing you is the list moderator/admin, then I don't > see how this thread should have been started in Debian-User. Wait... I thought Alan Connor NEVER got harassing email thanks to... *Fanfare*

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread cr
On Saturday 09 August 2003 00:07, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:41:02PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > *plonk* yourself. > > > > killfiled > > I am FED up with you. > > If you killfile Colin Watson, you obviously dont want good advice. > Therefore I suggest you unsubscribe as you

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:06, Alan Connor wrote: > Here's the Person who's been harassing me: > > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 15:44:11 2003 > Status: U > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from pop.earthlink.net [207.217.121.216] > by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9

Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Alan Connor
Here's the Person who's been harassing me: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 15:44:11 2003 Status: U Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from pop.earthlink.net [207.217.121.216] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.11 polling pop.earthlink.net accou nt [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Harassment

2003-08-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:53:17AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:10:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > S`econd-of-all, MORE people here agree with me than disagree with > > me. They simply don't post their opinions on the list for fear of > > being attacked by the pro-s

Re: Harassment

2003-08-07 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:10:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 17:03:39 2003 > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:06:59PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > > > > Here's the Person who's been harassing me: > > > > > > > > > > What does this have to do with D

Re: Harassment

2003-08-07 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:06:59PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > Here's the Person who's been harassing me: > > What does this have to do with Debian? If you want sympathy, I think this might not be the place to get it, as you have been offered many opinions on your POV in another thread, and

RE: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-08 Thread Huebel, David
Bayer lost the trademark in the US in the case Bayer Co. v. United Drug Co., 272 F. 505 (S.D.N.Y. 1921), in which the term "aspirin" was ruled to be generic. Before 1915, Bayer marketed acetylsalicylic acid powder to physicians and pharmacists under the name "Aspirin," the same name under which

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:04:32PM -0400, Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:39:33PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > > Probably because if you don't protect your trademarks in this country, > > they fall into the public domain. That's why you can say "asprin" > > when yo

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-08 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > How about Kill Illustrator? It sounds like it anyway - KILLustrator. That would infringe as much as Killustrator does. The trick with FAIR is that you can let everyone know what it stands for and not infringe as long as you don't use the word 'Illustrator' in the labeling of the pro

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-08 Thread csj
On Sunday 08 July 2001 10:12, John Hasler wrote: > Erik Steffl wrote: > > they should rename KIllustrator to: Adobe Illustrator Replacement > > > > that should be covered by fair use (it only refers to adobe > > illustrator which is allowed) > > "Fair use" is a term in copyright law. It has no mea

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
John Hasler wrote: > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > they should rename KIllustrator to: Adobe Illustrator Replacement > > > > that should be covered by fair use (it only refers to adobe > > illustrator which is allowed) > > "Fair use" is a term in copyright law. It has no meaningful application > that

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-07 Thread John Hasler
Erik Steffl wrote: > they should rename KIllustrator to: Adobe Illustrator Replacement > > that should be covered by fair use (it only refers to adobe > illustrator which is allowed) "Fair use" is a term in copyright law. It has no meaningful application that I know of to trademarks. Aaron Bras

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-07 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:52:48PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > they should rename KIllustrator to: Adobe Illustrator Replacement > > that should be covered by fair use (it only refers to adobe > illustrator which is allowed) How about one better: Free Adobe Illustrator Replacement aka: FAIR

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-06 Thread John Hasler
Jason writes: > ...but not Xerox(tm) to mean photocopying, Kleenex(tm) to mean facial > tissues, and Ziplock(tm) to refer to plastic storage bags. I can say all of those things, as long as I am not doing so in an effort to sell anything. Michael A. Miller writes: > Nor spam to mean SPAM(tm) lunch

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-06 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Jason" == Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's why you can say "asprin" when you want to cure a > headache (because Bayer didn't defend its trademark), but > not Xerox(tm) to mean photocopying, Kleenex(tm) to mean > facial tissues, and Ziplock(tm) to refer to pla

Re: [users] Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Craig Dickson (on Thu, 05 Jul 2001 03:42:50PM -0700): > I don't understand the distinction you're making. Is "illustrator" a word > in German also? The only difference I see in "Illustrator vs. illustrator" > is the capitalization. that's the difference. yes, Illustrator is a german wo

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread John Hasler
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier writes: > However, Prarie Farms shouldn't be able to go after someone else for > selling KMilk or whatever. They can't, as long as the product in question is milk. If the product in question is software or motor oil, they can. > Could have, but the developer shouldn't *ha

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Craig Dickson
der.hans wrote: > Actually, this appears to be the German way in this case :). First it's > in .de. Second, notice that it's a German word, not an English word, e.g. > Illustrator vs. illustrator. He should change it to Killustrator and see > if the .us portion of Adobe comes after him ;-). I don

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, der.hans wrote: > Am 05. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Jan Ulrich Hasecke so: > > > "Eric G. Miller" writes: > > > > > Protest all you like, but I think Adobe probably has a valid claim of > > > trademark infringement. > > > > Today KIllustrator, tomorrow M$ sues KWord and KOffice.

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread der.hans
Am 05. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Jan Ulrich Hasecke so: > "Eric G. Miller" writes: > > > Protest all you like, but I think Adobe probably has a valid claim of > > trademark infringement. > > Today KIllustrator, tomorrow M$ sues KWord and KOffice. Every project > can be sued this way, it only a quest

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer

2001-07-05 Thread Paul Huygen
Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adobe lawyers ask > developer of killustrator to pay fines for using a name that abuses > their trade mark illustrator. This reminds me of a similar case in the Netherlands, about ten years ago. About one hundred years ago some enthousiastic bicycle rid

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
> Today KIllustrator, tomorrow M$ sues KWord and KOffice. Every project > can be sued this way, it only a question of ill fantasy. In the end > you can only use numbers for your projects. > > If we do not defend our rights, who should? The american way of buying > words out of our languages must b

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Maybe I'm misremembering, but... The real problem isn't even being mentioned in this thread. The developer of Killustrator is willing to change the name; the problem is that the lawyers in Germany (possibly quite independently of Adobe) are demanding lots of money from one of the developers, to "

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:23:29PM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Today KIllustrator, tomorrow M$ sues KWord and KOffice. Every project > can be sued this way, it only a question of ill fantasy. In the end > you can only use numbers for your projects. I think there is a distinction here. Whi

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:43:56PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > > I would believe the ethical way to deal with an opensource developer, > > who doesn't profit from his products is to contact him first, rather > > than throw a bunch of law dogs at him. A

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Andrew Dixon
read about it at slashdot , and then > > give your feedback to Adobe. I already did. We can't let such harassment > > go without being protested. If I were a conspiracy theorist I would see > > a pattern here . While corporation are leagly portected to indulge in > > some

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
"Eric G. Miller" writes: > Protest all you like, but I think Adobe probably has a valid claim of > trademark infringement. Today KIllustrator, tomorrow M$ sues KWord and KOffice. Every project can be sued this way, it only a question of ill fantasy. In the end you can only use numbers for your

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-05 Thread John Foster
Carl Fink wrote: Another point: since "Illustrator" is a good description of the activity > being performed by the product, it's probably not a defensible trademark. > (Note: I'm not a lawyer, and am giving no one legal advice.) By law, you > can't trademark a description of the product -- for in

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:43:56PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: [snip] | I would believe the ethical way to deal with [disagreements] is to | contact [the other party] first Agreed (with obvious editorial license taken ;-)). On a better note, a while ago some company contacted John Harper (auth

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:26:07PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > It seems to me that from certain perspective it is plain ridiculous that a > group of humans can claim a word, group of words or phrase as theri personal > or corporate property. The laws may support it, but the it does not deny i

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
It seems to me that from certain perspective it is plain ridiculous that a group of humans can claim a word, group of words or phrase as theri personal or corporate property. The laws may support it, but the it does not deny its stupidity, nor the blindness of the fact.

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:39:33PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > At 994279436s since epoch (07/04/01 16:43:56 -0400 UTC), Balbir Thomas wrote: > > After all what kind of a person or company would want to levy a financial > > burden on a man who has contributed his time and resources, for a community

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:39:33PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > Probably because if you don't protect your trademarks in this country, > they fall into the public domain. That's why you can say "asprin" > when you want to cure a headache (because Bayer didn't defend its > trademark) . . . Urban m

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Jason Healy
At 994279436s since epoch (07/04/01 16:43:56 -0400 UTC), Balbir Thomas wrote: > After all what kind of a person or company would want to levy a financial > burden on a man who has contributed his time and resources, for a community > benifit. [Obligitory IANAL] Probably because if you don't prot

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:43:56PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > I would believe the ethical way to deal with an opensource developer, > who doesn't profit from his products is to contact him first, rather > than throw a bunch of law dogs at him. After all what kind of a person > or company would w

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Balbir Thomas
name > > that abuses their trade mark illustrator. Go read about it at slashdot > > , and then give your feedback to Adobe. I already did. We can't let > > such harassment go without being protested. If I were a conspiracy > > theorist I would see a pattern here . While

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Erik Steffl
es their trade mark illustrator. Go read about it at slashdot > > , and then give your feedback to Adobe. I already did. We can't let > > such harassment go without being protested. If I were a conspiracy > > theorist I would see a pattern here . While corporation are leagly >

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
, and then give your feedback to Adobe. I already did. We can't let > such harassment go without being protested. If I were a conspiracy > theorist I would see a pattern here . While corporation are leagly > portected to indulge in some kinds of "negative advertising" as

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread der.hans
to Adobe. I already did. We can't let such harassment > go without being protested. If I were a conspiracy theorist I would see > a pattern here . While corporation are leagly portected to indulge in > some kinds of "negative advertising" as a "competitive stratergy&

[OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, Yet another case of open source developers being harassed. Adobe lawyers ask developer of killustrator to pay fines for using a name that abuses their trade mark illustrator. Go read about it at slashdot , and then give your feedback to Adobe. I already did. We can't let such harassme