Re: Never ever use word BitKeeper if Larry does not like you

Alan Cox
2003-03-15T23:37:24Z

On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 12:20, Pavel Machek wrote:
> When Larry claims that BitKeeper is too similar to bit bucket, I'll
> roll on the floor, laughing, and print his words onto the
> T-shirt. [Bit bucket is jargon term for /dev/null,
> http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/b/bit_bucket.html]

Larry is right about the similarity of terms. Parody in certain
cases deals with copyright protections but not trademarks.

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