On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 21:58, Bowie J. Poag wrote: > > > You can use it if you like, but, you're going to have to call it something > else. > > "Post-It" is a Trademark. > > http://www.3m.com/legal.jhtml > > > > Anyway, in the interest of saving precious development time, I've gone ahead > and extrapolated the next week's discussion regarding this issue. Hopefully > you'll be able to find something else to talk about instead, since that > seems to be the number one issue holding you guys back from discussing > something original for a change. Here comes the work. > Havoc: "Uh-oh! We're infringing on 3M's trademark! Quick, lets call it > something so obfuscated that it becomes funny to us, and who's name will be > unrecognizable to 90% of our users! Lets call it gStickyClown. Ok, great. > Lets move on." You're so good you could be a journalist for the News of the World[1]. Havoc pointed out that the usual, common name for the "post-its" were "sticky notes" > Everyone: "No, wait! Lets call it gStickyNotePadThing!" <snip more malarkey> > Havoc: "blahblah blah. Ok then. It's settled. We'll call it gStickyKeanu." > > > Perhaps you're beginning to see what I mean now...For all the goddamn time > you spend hemming and hawing and trying to mimic everyone else's ideas, you > could have come up with something better on your own. Instead, you're > relegating the project to a perpetual 2nd Place showing, trying to push what > amounts to a collection of flea-market knockoffs with nothing new to add. > > I mean, has it occured to _anyone_ here that the purpose and function of a > "Post-It note" is already encompassed by like *three* or *four* other > applications? Why are you people even having this conversation? No shit. There are a lot of multimedia players, picture viewers, IRC clients, mail clients, browsers, word processors, spreadsheets, dish washers and toasters. The authors/makers of these aren't asking us for pointers and advices as other developers' opinions. > Unbelievable...the degree that some people are willing to go to, just to > avoid having to _think_ for a change... And you still didn't come up with a single idea. What do are you doing ? Bowie, please, try to think how much of a wanker you're making of yourself every time you're sending an e-mail here. And come up with ideas yourself instead of blaming others for not having new ones. Or shut your gob. That'll spare us some bandwidth. Greetings [1]: Bottom of the range tabloid[2] in the UK [2]: That's the bottom of the range of the tabloids. -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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