Spy der Mann's Journal: Okopipi anti-SPAM in legal problems... for Trademark.

We recently received an e-mail supposedly from the legal owners of the trademark "Blue Frog", which by the way, were NOT related to Blue Security.

The mail states that the term "Blue frog" (or any colored frog for that matter) should not be used anymore describing software.

Additionally, according to the e-mail, the now extinct Blue Security is going to be sued for damages.

Even if the mail turns out to be fake (you never know what spammers are capable of), we made a shocking discovery: The name "Black Frog" is already used by another company (which fortunately hasn't sued us yet), so we have taken a decision.

Okopipi is from now on the official name of both the project and the software.

I've already cancelled the "blackfrog" project at Sourceforge. We will issue an official press release soon.

What does Okopipi mean?

[WilliamSChips]

Or is it just a random arrangement of letters?

It's a poisonous tree frog whose skin is blue

[Spy der Mann]

Okopipi is the autoctonous name of a poisonous blue-colored frog that lives in Suriname [wikipedia.org]. This frog's scientific name is "Dendrobates Azureus" [wikipedia.org], and was the mascot for both the Blue Security software [wikipedia.org] (whose name we're not allowed to mention anymore), and for the Azureus [wikipedia.org] P2P client.