[TriLUG] [Not a joke] AOL is suing me!

[Turnpike Man]

--- "H. Wade Minter" <minter at lunenburg.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Tomm Lorenzin wrote:
> 
> > How 'bout "Instantaneous Messenger?"  That oughtta' do the lawyer-repellant
> > trick while retaining your clarity-of-meaning.  It also kinda' shoves it up
> > their noses, which they richly deserve. <G>
> 
> Not that anyone wants to be the test case, but I just wanted to point out
> that people giving in without a fight to baseless cease-and-desist letters
> is what allows the system to continue.
> 

WOO WOO!!  Fight the power!  Anyway... their product is AIM, "A"OL "I"nstant
"M"essenger... not "Instant Messenger".  So did they really get a trademark on
that??  If I said, "use your Instant Messenger to send me the link" instead of
"hey, instant message me the link" and the world will come to an end?  Come on
AOL... *shrugs*

David

> --Wade


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