Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sun supporting PostgreSQL

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От Andrew Sullivan
Тема Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sun supporting PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 20051118212037.GF29354@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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Ответ на Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sun supporting PostgreSQL  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:41:52PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> The funny thing is its only "the big companies" that seem concerned about
> this ... and even then, there are big companies that don't have an issue
> with using the name: SRA and Fujitsu being two that come to mind ...
> *shrug*

Well, the examples you gave are both companies with head offices in
Japan.  Trademarks in the US are a Big Deal, because of the way
trademarks need to be defended there (there's a great deal of
jurisprudence around this.  Hint: there's a reason you can still buy
Bayer(tm) Aspirin(tm) in Canada, and yet you can't in the US).  So
US-based companies get very hinkey about trademarks, especially when
they're doing things in an area where they're subject to other PR
issues,

A

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