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Re: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

To: Linux India General <linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <r.suresh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 17:54:12 +0530
Cc: Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <873dq8r3ds.fsf@glaurung.green-gryphon.com>; from Manoj Srivastava on Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 12:09:35AM -0600
Organization: CAUCE India <www.india.cauce.org>
References: <200003031212.RAA23775@hd2.dot.net.in>
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Thus spake Arun Sharma: 

>Another troll huh ? GPL can only "protect" code, not ideas [1]
>Microsoft will still be "free" to implement their own kerberos extensions.

Right - but M$ is rather noted for this kind of thing.  The last I heard,
they'd tried to trademark "D.N.S" as it was the abbreviation of something
new (or lifted, who knows <g>) they were introducing.

Another [OT] example - Verio (a HUGE webhost and ISP - verio.net) tried to
trademark "whois" (!)

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References:
- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
  - From: Manoj Srivastava

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