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Re: announcement subject tag
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:20:45AM -0500, Julian Opificius wrote:
> >It's a little presumptuous to use a subject tag that does not include
> >cygwin. What does "[announcement]" mean to someone outside the cygwin
> >camp? There are hundreds of organizations that might want to make
> >announcements via email lists. What about "[cygwin-announce]".
>
> Sorry. We've trademarked the use of "[ANNOUNCEMENT]". If those
> hundreds of organizations want to use this, they'll have to pay us
> royalties.
>
> So, if you see other organizations using the "[ANNOUNCEMENT]" without
> proper attribution to Cygwin, make sure you report them to your local
> authorities.
Then how about changing it to "[ANNOUNCEMENT(tm)]"? ;-) After all, if you
don't enforce the trademark, it becomes void, right?
Igor
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