Re: App Naming Nazi (was: Re: Gstreamer)

[Christopher Culver]

On 2004-01-27 00:35:32 +0100 Pascal J.Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> 
wrote:
> > Microsoft holds the trademark to "*Windows* Media Player" not "Media 
> > Player," which is a generic term. People tend to overreact when it comes to 
> > lawsuits. Calm, logical thinking should prevail. See the aforementioned.
>
> They don't hold the trademark on MikeRowSoft.com either, but that does
> not prevent its lawyer army to harass an adolescent.

There is already a project at SourceForge called "MediaPlayer Classic" which 
is a clone of the media player that came with Windows 98. If Microsoft hasn't 
harassed its maintainers, for it is a rather popular program, I doubt they 
would care about something from the tiny GNUstep world.

Christopher Culver