[87795] in Cypherpunks
Re: Trademarking CypherSpace???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (no@spam.com)
Mon Oct 6 21:55:46 1997
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 21:17:28 -0400
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: no@spam.com
Reply-To: no@spam.com
Bill Stewart wrote:
> Sigh. A company called I-Planet is trying to trademark the term
> "Cypherspace", even though we've been using it for a couple of years
> in the cypherpunk community. They're doing an IPSEC Virtual Private
> Network, with friendly HTML administration;
> http://www.i-planet.com/P2cypherpb.html . Looks like interesting stuff,
> and I wish them luck except in TMing the name :-)
What these guys are selling is an embedded unix box with some crypto code
in the kernel, plus socks, sendmail, named, apache, and some fax software
pre-installed, for $5000. Pretty high price for a 100 mhz FreeBSD box,
tho I suspect they have substantial tech support costs.
I saw no mention of trademark claims for "cypherspace" on their web site.
