Re: Trademark scope (just for the record)
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Rick Moen wrote:
> Pepsico doesn't ask the Coca-Cola Company's permission to publish claims
> that its sugar-water is better tasting than is Coca-Cola. That ought to
> be a big, fat clue, but far too many people have been successfully
> conned and don't think about the implications.
But on the other hand, Pepsi doesn't put out a soft drink which says on the
label "This is Coca-Cola, but it is not produced or endorsed by the Coca-Cola
Corporation".
In the Mozilla example, Debian's using the word to refer to their own
product. In the Pepsi example, Pepsi is using the word to refer to the
competitor's product, even though they're comparing it against their own
product.
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