jesse
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On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 04:25:23PM -0500, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
> This is not about jobs, but is sent to the only real email address I found
> on your site. Please pass this on to your management.
>
> Your assertion that "Web of Trust" is a trademark I find quite offensive. I
> have used the term for a long time to identify a concept and I am myself
> embarrassed that I don't always find a way to give credit to the PGP
> community who used it, long before that, to identify a concept they were
> promoting. Please desist from claiming trademark of something which is
> clearly generic and if owned, would not be owned by epinions.
>
> I would point out that the assertion of trademarks on generic terms, like
> the assertion of the patentable novelty the processes which are not
> generally considered novel, is looked on with justified disdain by the
> development community.
>
> Tim Berners-Lee
>
>
-- jesse reed vincent -- jrvincent@wesleyan.edu -- jesse@fsck.com pgp keyprint: 50 41 9C 03 D0 BC BC C8 2C B9 77 26 6F E1 EB 91 -------------------------------------------------------------- "If IBM _wanted_ to make clones, we could make them cheaper and faster than anyone else!" - An IBM Rep. visiting Vassar College's Comp Sci Department.