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Linux-Announce Digest #527
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Linux-Announce Digest #527, Volume #4 Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:13:04 EDT
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: SciTech SNAP Graphics 2.0.0 for Linux ("Kendall Bennett")
Obelix./.MobiliX: Highest German Civil Court Dismissed the Case (Werner Heuser)
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From: "Kendall Bennett" <KendallB@scitechsoft.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: SciTech SNAP Graphics 2.0.0 for Linux
Date: 4 Sep 2003 00:50:05 GMT
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SciTech SNAP Graphics 2.0 for Linux
Professional Edition
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Where can I download it?
========================
You can download SciTech SNAP Graphics 2.0 from our web site using the
following URL:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/ent/snap_linux.html
For those who have downloaded the RC3 release, you do not need to
download again, as this is the same build.
What's new in this version?
===========================
This is the first official release of SciTech SNAP Graphics 2.0 for
Linux, and includes support for 150 graphics chipsets.
This release has been tested for use on Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE,
Debian, Xandros, Slackware, and TurboLinux distributions. It works
with any version of XFree86 from 4.0.2 through the current 4.3.0.
A list of changes since the beta releases can be found here:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/snap_linux_changes.txt
About SciTech SNAP Graphics for Linux
=====================================
SciTech SNAP Graphics provides high performance graphics accelerator
access across a wide range of modern graphics hardware and operating
systems. The core technology is our SciTech SNAP Graphics Architecture,
which is a cross platform device driver technology enabling the use of
the
same device drivers in all versions of SciTech SNAP Graphics. Sharing the
drivers between platforms improves the quality and performance of device
drivers for all supported operating systems.
The install archive contains the end user Linux installation of SciTech
SNAP Graphics. It contains all of the necessary Linux based utilities and
device drivers that work with SciTech SNAP based applications, as well as
full support for XFree86 4.0.2 and later official releases. Applications
that can utilise SciTech SNAP currently include applications developed
using the SciTech MGL graphics library, or applications written to work
directly with the SciTech SNAP device drivers.
For more detailed information about SciTech SNAP Graphics for Linux
(including the list of supported graphics chipsets) see the complete
readme at:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/ftp/snap/linux/readme.txt
Support
=======
If you wish to discuss this release with other users, you are welcome to
use the SciTech newsgroups at:
news://news.scitechsoft.com/scitech.snap.graphics.linux
Please note that the product has a 21-day evaluation period; if you
would like to purchase it for continued use, it is available in our
online store. Once you have registered, you can get priority support by
opening tickets on the SciTech HelpDesk:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/support/helpdesk/
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Kendall Bennett
Chief Executive Officer
SciTech Software, Inc.
Phone: (530) 894 8400
http://www.scitechsoft.com
~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology! ~
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From: Werner Heuser <Werner.Heuser@web.de>
Subject: Obelix./.MobiliX: Highest German Civil Court Dismissed the Case
Date: 4 Sep 2003 13:25:00 GMT
Obelix./.MobiliX: Highest German Civil Court Dismissed the Case
The trademark case Obelix versus MobiliX - Linux On Mobile Computers was
finally dismissed by the Bundesgerichtshof - BGH, the highest German civil
court. Werner Heuser, owner of the trademark MobiliX and the domain
mobilix.org - UniX On Mobile Computers, has lost the case, because the BGH
rejected his request for an appeal. The BGH did not care to provide a
detailed argumentation for their decision, the chamber merely quoted the
appropriate part of the law.
In his long and detailed argumentation to get a permission for an appeal,
Prof. Dr. Achim Kraemer, lawyer of Werner Heuser, wrote: "The commercial
usage of domain names leads already at the time of their registration to
preventive reactions by holders of older trademarks, which claim their
trademarks as violated. Particular risks exist for so-called
word-trademarks, which contain parts of the common language, when they are
combined with suffixes or prefixes used in certain groups. If trademarks are
protected much too excessively, as the appeal court has done in our opinion,
some very famous but fancy names may occupy a wide range of the language and
it becomes impossible for anyone to create new word-trademarks."
In autumn 2001 Les Edition Albert Rene, the owner of the trademark Obelix
had charged Werner Heuser. He is the owner of the well-known open source
project MobiliX ( now TuxMobil http://tuxmobil.org ) . This project
provides plenty of information about UniX operating systems like Linux,
BSD and Solaris on laptops, notebooks, PDAs and other mobile computers.
Therefore he has chosen a name, which expresses this by a combination of
the word "Mobile" and the common suffix "iX" taken from UniX(TM). The
plaintiff asserts that Werner Heuser had chosen this name to take
advantage of their well-known comic book character "Obelix" for which they
own a trademark.
This outcome of the charge is a great pity, not only for the Free Software
movement, because it is one more example showing that the big-players become
more and more capable to monopolize large parts of the language. In this
case almost all trademarks and domains ending with the suffix "ix" are under threat.
Another recent case is the German Telekom trying to monopolize all
occurences of the letter "T" in logos and company names. They have even
bought domains like t-wurst.de (transl. t-sausage), tsex.de and t-beutel.de
(transl. t-bag) to protect their logo and to prevent others from using those
domains. Also they charged some companies, which were using some kind of "T" in
their logos, more at Free-T http://free-t.de (in German).
A detailed documentation of the case, containing information
about other projects under siege and the written statements of the
lawyers JBB http://jbb.de , is available online at
http://tuxmobil.org/mobilix_asterix.html
/*
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* Please help TuxMobil by updating BOOKMARKS FROM mobilix.org TO TuxMobil.org!
*
*/
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|=| Werner Heuser = Keplerstr. 11A = D-10589 Berlin = Germany
|=| <wehe at tuxmobil.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86
|=| http://TuxMobil.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software
|*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed
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