In the service of Aunt Tillie -- Zero-configuration networking

[Eric S. Raymond]

Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com>:
> 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.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>