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Re: [debian-knoppix] About names



Re,

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:42:30PM +0100, Klaus Knopper wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:07:50PM +0100, Nils Magnus wrote:
> > > David GLAUDE, futur author of GLAUDIX (looking for trouble with Albert 
> > > Ren?/Goscinny-Uberzo author of "Asterix et Obelix").
> > 
> > You are joking, but there has been a very serious lawsuit in Germany
> > about that very issue (there is a quite popular website about Linux on
> > laptops called "mobilix"). See
> > 
> >     http://mobilix.de/mobilix_asterix.html
> > 
> > for details (unfortunately only in german). The lawsuit was won in the
> > first instance, but is still pending in the second.
> 
> Actally, MobiliX lost the second instance for reasons that sound obscure
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> to me (well, of course, everybody is confusing a comic character with an
> operating system, and will accidentially buy software instead of comics for
> that reason, right?).

That is not correct, the sentence is still pending and will be declared
January, 23. However, it seems that the outcome is in the direction you
described.

Regards,

Nils Magnus
Program-Chair LinuxTag 2003 Free Conference Program

LinuxTag 2003: Where .com meets .org - magnus@linuxtag.org
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