Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:12:28PM -0500, Chris Ricker wrote: > > > That is debatable owing to possible patent issues. See the ietf web site > > > list of IPR statements on the subject, although the patent may well > > > be very dubious. > > > > Not to mention the trademark infringement suit over the name "Rendezvous" > > for Apple's code.... > > Rendezvous is Apple's name for their version of it. A trademark is much less > of a problem because you can name yours something different. That's right. Now, maybe if we spent as much eneergy thinking of a way to make this work, rather than reasons it can't work, we'd be in better shape. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
