Re: Tomboy replacement

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:39:57PM +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:15 +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 09:26:55PM -0800, Peter Gordon wrote:
>>>> Using childlish references (such as "M$" and "Microvell") is immature
>>>> and does nothing to further your point. Likewise, name-calling will
>>>> always strongly discredit your argument, irrelevant to whether or not
>>>> you are correct.
>>> Actually, if you want to be absolutely sure you won't step on
>>> trademarks, they're suddenly not so childish anymore...
>> I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to call a company by it's name when I'm
>> talking about said company.  If not, then there are larger fish to fry.
>> Only today I heard the BBC say "Microsoft".  Oh no, I've done it again!
>> Aaiiiiiie!
> 
> Me too, but I prefer not to prove it in court.

If Microsoft is going to frivolously sue you, they'd have better luck
claiming defamation because you said "Micro$oft" than they would
claiming trademark infringment because you said "Microsoft".

-- Dan