Re[2]: [ga] Dave: "they are free"

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Christopher,

Sunday, April 15, 2001, 4:30:02 PM, Christopher Ambler wrote:

>> > I run my own burger joint, until yesterday I have been screaming and yelling
>> > against McDonalds, but now I support them, I really think that they should
>> > let me operate in franchise, under their umbrella-organization, otherwise I
>> > will consider this an aggression!

> Not really.

> You've been running your own burger joint, marketing a burger called a
> "Roberto Special," and now McDonalds comes along and says, "starting
> next quarter, we're introducing the 'Roberto Special!'" You tell them that
> you're already doing that, and they say, "Who cares? We're bigger, you
> don't have a trademark, and we didn't know about you." You show them
> documentation in their own online forum for public comments where they
> were notified of you, and they just shut up.

> Can they do it? Yeah, guess so. Can you fight back? Yeah, you can.
> Will you win? Good question, hard to tell. But it'll be a bloody fight,
> that's for sure.

You are describing a second level domain situation, not a top level
domain situation.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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