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Fwd: Linux Documentation Author Werner Heuser threatened with 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty for supposed tradmark infringment
by N.D. 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

From: "Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle(a)danka.de> To: <announce(a)linuxdoc.org>; <discuss(a)linuxdoc.org>; <docbook(a)linuxdoc.org> Cc: <wehe(a)mobilix.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:55 PM Subject: Linux Documentation Author Werner Heuser threatened with 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty for supposed tradmark infringment Off topic -- cross posting is deliberate... ############################################################################ ################ ## 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty to Linux Documentation Author -- ## for infringing comic character "Obelix" through free Laptop support Website "MobiliX"?? ############################################################################ ################ After having gotten a request (in June 2001) from German legal representatives of "Les Editions Albert Rene" (Paris), holder of the trademarks "Asterix" and "Obelix", to unregister the name MobiliX, they now took legal action against Werner Heuser (mailto:wehe@mobilix.org), well-known amongst Linux-laptop users for authoring the "Linux-Mobile-Guide" (formerly called the Laptop-HOWTO), published by the Linux Documentation Project. MobiliX (http://mobilix.org/), his own website, is dedicated to "Mobile UniX systems" on laptops, PDAs, cell phones and more. It carries lots of useful hands-on information about installing and running Linux and BSD on laptops, PDAs and other mobile computer devices -- and of course it is free to use via the internet. It exists since five years and besides the famous site "Linux on Laptops" (http://www.linux-laptop.net) by Kenneth E. Harker it seems to be biggest resource on this topic. MobiliX is an acronym of the words "mobile" and "UniX". To avoid legal trouble, Werner had registered this name at the German trademark register in 1999. It is a common practice to build new names for Unix related topics from a word naming the topic and adding the letters "iX" at the end. Some examples are: AIX, Eurix (Comfood), Sinix (Siemens-Nixdorf), SkroBelix, Skyrix, Ultrix, Xenix. The German computer magazine iX is even just named by these letters. The name Unix itself is a registered trademark of AT&T, X/Open. The very name Mobilix is already registered for a German manufacturer of children furniture -- but don't seem infringed, because of the different industry they are in. Before the legal action, Werner didn't reference in any way towords comic characters Asterix or Obelix on his web pages. The name of his website MobiliX.org is supposed to be mistaken for Obelix, according to the charges. The trademark Obelix was registered by German lawyer Guenter Freiherr v. Gravenreuth. The legal charge is up to 250.000 USD or six months prison. The costs of the first instance are app. 15.000 USD. Werner Heuser has decided not to withdraw the name "MobiliX". He is supported by the German lawyers Jaschinski, Biere und Brexl - JBB (http://www.jbb-berlin.de). This case is another one in the recent series of trademark troubles for Free Software projects (SAMBA, Kylix, Kilustrator, SELFHTML, SuSE, ..). Therefore this case is very important not only because many of these projects have names ending on "iX". Current news about the case are at http://mobilix.org/mobilix_asterix.html Please support Werner to fight this attack. [submitted by Kurt Pfeifle <pfeifle(a)kde.org>] -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | .--. CUPS + ESP PrintPro: | | |o_o | ******************** | | ~ |:_/ | Unix/Linux Printing made fun and easy | | ° ° // \ \ http://www.danka.de/printpro/faq.html | | /V\ (| | ) .~. Kurt Pfeifle, Danka Deutschland GmbH | | // \\ /'\_ _/`\ /V\ Tel.: +49-172-715.7017 | | /( )\ \___)=(___ )/( )\ mailto:kpfeifle@danka.de | | ^`~'^ ^^~^^ | | Network Printing Services: Consulting+Training+Workshops+Troubleshooting | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ _________________________ http://list.linuxdoc.org/ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Simple distro
by nilesh patil 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

Hi All, I want to create a Linux CD, which just contains only Apache Server as far as the Applications are concerned, and wish to remove all other applications like GNOME, SAMBA, KDE, GAMES, ... etc. from the CD. Also when I will use this CD to install, only Apache must be called for installtion and no other applications must be called. Can someone please guide to achieve this. Some suggestions or pointers will be of great help. Thanks. --Nilesh _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] cyberoam
by Amish Mehta 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

See old Dec archives of list at http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers or go directly to http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20011217/003320.ht… Amish. Mitul Limbani wrote: >Can you give me the dump. >Or if any one else has got the dump for the latest cyberoam server

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- [Commercial] - Economic GNU/Linux CDs available.
by Navin 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

Hello, Economic CDs are available with us. Please check the economic cds store at http://cds.linuxcampus.net Yours Truly, Navin Dhanuka. LinuxCampus.net : ====[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]=============== Sub : Killing a Process (#3) LOST #150 To kill a process by name, use the killall command. To kill a failed fetchmail session on tty1 as an user, log into another console, and issue the command "killall fetchmail". Be careful with this command as root, since all instances of the program used by *all* users will be killed !!! ====<bish(a)nde.vsnl.net.in>====================== ====[ http://lost.linuxcampus.net ]=================== : . _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] cyberoam
by Amish Mehta 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

See http://sourceforge.net/projects/cyberoam. Under files you will find the client for Linux. Amish. Sachin Prabhu wrote: > Please looking for cyberroam on linux......... icenet did not

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Need Help on ioctls
by Kunal Gangakhedkar 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

Hi there, Can anyone tell me how IOCTLs actually work and how to program using IOCTLs ?? I mean, I want to know the internal working of the IOCTL calls. Detailed explanation is appreciated. This is the second time I'm sending this question. Thanks, Kunal ------------------ Adding features does not necessarily increase functionality -- it just makes the manuals thicker. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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blocking attachments in sendmail
by Hiten Desai 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

does anyone know about blocking attachments in sendmail I m having pop3 as well as imap clients the server is sendmail and uwimapd please tell me if there is any easy to do filter to block attachments Hiten. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/

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[COMMERCIAL] Media Lab Asia Employment
by Apu Shah 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Media Lab Asia Seeks Linux, System Software, and Networking Scientists ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What if an operating system were designed specifically for rural India instead of for urban Seattle, Washington? How might it be different in terms of scheduling, memory management, file systems, user interfaces, language support, memory image size, network support.... And what if 802.11 were redesigned for villages instead of office buildings? How would it differ in terms of power requirements, cost, RF properties.... Media Lab Asia aims to radically reconceptualize, for rural India, system software and network systems in its Systems Laboratory based on the IIT Madras campus in Chennai. Media Lab Asia consists of the renowned Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), regional laboratories in Mumbai, Kanpur, New Delhi, and Chennai, and participating grassroots communities. The organization has its administrative headquarters in Mumbai. We are looking for world-class scientists and engineers interested in the applications of high-technologies to social and economic development and rural transformation. The successful applicant will have experience in either system software (Linux kernel experience a plus) or network engineering. A Ph.D. is preferred but ambitious new post graduates showing exceptional promise will be considered. E-mail us at jobs(a)medialabasia.org and mention "System Software" in the subject line. Please include an introductory statement of 500 words or less along with your CV in plain text or HTML. URL links to relevant websites are welcome. Kindly forward to individuals or lists that may suit this profile. http://www.medialabasia.org/

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sendmail.cf - version 9 upgrade
by Manish Jethani 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

I've `upgraded' my system to red hat 7.2. Sendmail gives me a warning now, saying: Warning: .cf file is out of date: sendmail 8.11.6 supports version 9, .cf file is version 8 How do I regenerate it to match version 9 (without messing up my settings, masquerading rules, aliases, etc.)? Manish -- You can always tell luck from ability by its duration.

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RE: [ILUG-BOM] - [Commercial] - Economic GNU/Linux CDs available.
by Amarendra Godbole (Intl Vendor) 07 Jan '02

07 Jan '02

> PS: fetchmail sucks </rant> ...or were you never able to use it ? ;) Grapes are sour...et.al.. -- Amarendra A. Godbole / Spare time LINUX Hacker / Microsoft ``Services For UNIX'' / These opinions are _MINE_.

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