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OS/2 Community Tries Bounty System 293

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 07, 2008 @02:34PM from the warped-minds dept.

Grayskull writes "The OS/2 and eComStation community are trying to get open source software ported to that platform by opening bounties and allowing people to chip in with prize money. Currently the most important open bounties are Java 6 port, Icon routines in OS/2, VirtualBox port, Extend multimedia and OpenWengo ports."

Linden Labs Sends "Permit-and-Proceed" Letter 140

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 31, 2007 @01:43AM from the as-you-were dept.

linuxwrangler writes "In sharp contrast to the incidents chronicled at Chilling Effects, Second Life creators Linden Labs have sent the parody site Get a First Life a proceed-and-permit letter. From the letter: 'Linden Lab is well-known for having strict hiring standards, including a requirement for having a sense of humor, from which our lawyers receive no exception. In conclusion, your invitation to submit a cease-and-desist letter is hereby rejected.' The letter also grants permission to use the parody logos."

Comment Thats not the worst of it. (Score 2, Informative) 745

by Professor_Oak on Monday July 04, 2005 @02:05AM (#12977693) Attached to: Owner of the Word Stealth 'Protecting' Rights

He claims to own the rights to words such as treehouse and even words such as walk and smile! and claims to own the rights to many phrases including "Thank You" Heres a list of words he claims to own: http://rentamark.com/Wordmarks/wordmarks.html And a list of phrases: http://rentamark.com/e-marks/A-D/a-d.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/E-I/e-i.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/J-O/j-o.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/P-S/p-s.html http://rentamark.com/e-marks/T-Z/t-z.html Quite a few movie titles are included. For example: Terminator and Sahara ".com" is even claimed to be trademarked. Its like they picked a list ofwords randomly from a dictionary.

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