hplip: hp-toolbox advertising?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Tue Mar 27 13:05:11 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 08:46 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 March 2007 07:44:32 Rex Dieter wrote:
> > David's usability issues have nothing to do with packaging.  
> > If you can justify crippling the packaging, fine, but you haven't.
> 
> Removing a company logo from the menu is a pretty good reason I think.  If a 
> new icon was provided that wasn't advertisement for HP there would be less 
> resistance to having it in the menu.

I'd like to point out that there is likely a trademark issue involved
here as well.  Unless the package has an explicit grant to display the
HP trademark even if patches are made, I'm sure it'll get sticky.

That might be a bit easier to swallow than "free advertisement".

josh




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