[OT] Copyright infringement by Walmart?

[OT] Copyright infringement by Walmart?

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

Hello, Linus

Don't know, if I am the first, perhaps not. But I couldn't resist. Just
found in today's junk-mail pack an advertisement by Walmart-Germany of
"Linux Vollwaschmittel" - a washing powder:-)) The question in the subject
is because I am not, really, sure - maybe they did license it
appropriately?:-) Anyway, now you know it, I am holding this paper in my
hands, and I am going to keep it this time:-) As you know, Walmart is an
American supermarket, if it matters. And should I say - I was amazed and
amused!:-))

Regards
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski

Re: [OT] Copyright infringement by Walmart?

[Oliver Feiler]

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Hello Guennadi,

On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:13, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> Don't know, if I am the first, perhaps not. But I couldn't resist. Just
> found in today's junk-mail pack an advertisement by Walmart-Germany of
> "Linux Vollwaschmittel" - a washing powder:-)) The question in the subject
> is because I am not, really, sure - maybe they did license it
> appropriately?:-) Anyway, now you know it, I am holding this paper in my
> hands, and I am going to keep it this time:-) As you know, Walmart is an
> American supermarket, if it matters. And should I say - I was amazed and
> amused!:-))

Linux washing powder has been around for some time if I remember correctly, 
never used it though. ;)

Afaik, the name is ok, because the trademark Linux does not apply here. At 
least in Germany it is registered in the category "computer'n'stuff" 
(someting like that afaik) so selling Linux washing powder should be 
perfectly fine, no roalties having to to be paid. But then IANAL and at least 
I thought this was how it works. Feel free to correct me if I was wrong as 
I'd be interested in it myself.

Bye,
Oliver

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Re: [OT] Copyright infringement by Walmart?

[Thorsten Kranzkowski]

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:13:29PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Don't know, if I am the first, perhaps not. But I couldn't resist. Just
> found in today's junk-mail pack an advertisement by Walmart-Germany of
> "Linux Vollwaschmittel" - a washing powder:-)) The question in the subject

It's made by an austrian company. For those who want to have a look:
http://www.waschmittel.com/L-neu!LinuxVollwaschmittel.htm

IMHO there's no need to complain - it's just too funny to impress friends
'even my washing mashine runs on Linux' :-)) 

Bye,
Thorsten

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Re: [OT] Copyright infringement by Walmart?

[Florian Schanda]

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On Sunday 29 February 2004 13:11, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote:
> IMHO there's no need to complain - it's just too funny to impress friends
> 'even my washing mashine runs on Linux' :-))

There is even a (german) review of this "distribution".

http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2001/06/094-logout/linux-wasch.html

	Florian
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Re: [OT] Copyright infringement by Walmart?

[Clemens Schwaighofer]

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Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote:
| On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:13:29PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
|
|>Don't know, if I am the first, perhaps not. But I couldn't resist. Just
|>found in today's junk-mail pack an advertisement by Walmart-Germany of
|>"Linux Vollwaschmittel" - a washing powder:-)) The question in the subject
|
|
| It's made by an austrian company. For those who want to have a look:
| http://www.waschmittel.com/L-neu!LinuxVollwaschmittel.htm

Thought it has the buzz-words of Windows

- - square-drum

whatever that is (the whole page is in german ...)

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Re: [OT] Copyright infringement by Walmart?

[Alexander Veit]

Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Don't know, if I am the first, perhaps not. But I couldn't 
> resist. Just found in today's junk-mail pack an advertisement
> by Walmart-Germany of "Linux Vollwaschmittel" - a washing
> powder:-))

There's also a halogen light system with the same name.
BTW, the likelihood of confusion is low in both cases.

Regards,
Alex

Re: [OT] Copyright infringement by Walmart?

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402291201330.776-100000@poirot.grange>,
Guennadi Liakhovetski  <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> wrote:
>Hello, Linus
>
>Don't know, if I am the first, perhaps not. But I couldn't resist. Just
>found in today's junk-mail pack an advertisement by Walmart-Germany of
>"Linux Vollwaschmittel" - a washing powder:-))

My dishwasher has used Sun tablets for years! Will they also
market Linux dishwasher tablets so I can upgrade ?

Mike.

Re: [OT] Copyright infringement by Walmart?

[Tomas Zvala]

Well here in Czech Republic is a construction (or something like that) 
company named "Unix". There is a car of theirs on front of our apartment 
building. I should go out and take a picture :)


Tomas.

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402291201330.776-100000@poirot.grange>,
> Guennadi Liakhovetski  <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>>Hello, Linus
>>
>>Don't know, if I am the first, perhaps not. But I couldn't resist. Just
>>found in today's junk-mail pack an advertisement by Walmart-Germany of
>>"Linux Vollwaschmittel" - a washing powder:-))
> 
> 
> My dishwasher has used Sun tablets for years! Will they also
> market Linux dishwasher tablets so I can upgrade ?
> 
> Mike.
> 
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Re: [OT] Copyright infringement by Walmart?

[Måns Rullgård]

Tomas Zvala <tomas@zvala.cz> writes:

> Well here in Czech Republic is a construction (or something like that)
> company named "Unix". There is a car of theirs on front of our
> apartment building. I should go out and take a picture :)

This web page has a list of non-OS Unixes:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html

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Måns Rullgård
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Re: [OT] Copyright infringement by Walmart?

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, [iso-8859-1] MЕns RullgЕrd wrote:
> This web page has a list of non-OS Unixes:
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html

Thanks for all clarifications. I knew I was absolutely incompetent in all
legal issues, I even confused "copyright" with "trademark"!:-) But that's
interesting information, that trademarks can be registered only in a
specific area. So, anybody could produce, say, toilet paper and call it,
for example, "Microsoft"?:-) Or is this a globally registered trademark?
No. I don't really want to know the answer.

Anyway, I'll keep the ad:-)

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski

Re: [OT] Copyright infringement by Walmart?

[Michael Frank]

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:23:23 +0100 (CET), Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, [iso-8859-1] MЕns RullgЕrd wrote:
>> This web page has a list of non-OS Unixes:
>> http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html
>
> Thanks for all clarifications. I knew I was absolutely incompetent in all
> legal issues, I even confused "copyright" with "trademark"!:-) But that's
> interesting information, that trademarks can be registered only in a
> specific area. So, anybody could produce, say, toilet paper and call it,
> for example, "Microsoft"?:-) Or is this a globally registered trademark?
> No. I don't really want to know the answer.
>
> Anyway, I'll keep the ad:-)
>

Thanks anyway and the above link is cute too :)

Regards
Michael