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18 Feb 2002

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alug-announce : The Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group
Today's Topics:
1. MobiliX response online (MJ Ray)
   2. Alan Cox talking in Swansea (MJ Ray)
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Message: 1
From: MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk
To: announce@lists.alug.org.uk
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:05:16 +0000
Subject: [Alug Announce] MobiliX response online
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Reply-To: Werner Heuser wehe@mobilix.org
To: list-obelix-en@snafu.de
Subject: Obelix versus MobiliX: Legal Response Online Now
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:25:38 -0100
In the conflict between Obelix and MobiliX, the legal response of the
lawyers Jaschinski Biere Brexl (JBB) is online now.
In November 2001 Werner Heuser, owner of the Opens Source project MobiliX -
UniX on Mobile Computers (http://mobilix.org) was charged by "Les Editions
Albert Rene", which is owner of the trademark "Obelix". The charge aimes on
a deletion of the trademark "MobiliX" and a compensation fee. Also every
commercial use of the name "MobiliX" will be forbidden. Every offense can be
charged with up to 250.000 Euro or as a substitute with six months prison.
Werner Heuser has taken the lawyers Jaschinski Biere Brexl (JBB)
(http://www.jbb-berlin.de) to represent him in court. His lawyers had to
work out the legal response until January 21st 2002.
The legal response (PDF, 22 pages in German) is online
(http://mobilix.org/mobilix_asterix.html) now. The document describes the
origin of the names Obelix (from "obelisk") and MobiliX (from "mobil" and
"UniX"). Many wellknown names are used to show how widespread the suffix
"ix" is in the IT business, e.g. often UniX derivates are named by this
scheme. This is followed by an analysis of the pronounciation and spelling
of the words Obelix and MobiliX, and whether they can be mistaken from
members of the IT business or not. As a conclusion the charge is considered
void.
Since the suffix "ix" is widespread in the IT community, it seems possible
that even more projects will be charged. This case is very important for the
Free Software community, too. Therefore the lawyers Jaschinski Biere Brexl
(JBB) have agreed to make the legal response public.
The MobiliX (http://mobilix.org) site is dedicated to Mobile UniX systems.
It leads you to a lot of useful hands-on information about installing and
running Linux, BSD and other UniXes on laptops, PDAs and other mobile
computer devices. Werner Heuser offers his Linux-HOWTOs and his book "Linux
on the Road" there. Besides his work for MobiliX he is a Debian GNU/Linux
maintainer.
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|=| Werner Heuser = Keplerstr. 11A = D-10589 Berlin = Germany
|=| <wehe_AT_mobilix.org>      T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86
|=| http://MobiliX.org         UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software
|=| http://Xtops.DE            Laptops+PDAs pre-installed with UniX
|*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed
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MJR

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Message: 2
From: MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk
To: announce@lists.alug.org.uk
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:17:06 +0000
Subject: [Alug Announce] Alan Cox talking in Swansea

Possibly of interest to someone on this side of the country.  

Replies not to me, please.  ;-)

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Subject: [uklugs] Linux Public Lecture in Swansea
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:30:33 -0000
Reply-To: "Margaret Day" m.day@swan.ac.uk

Hi

I work in the Dept of Computer Science at University of Wales Swansea.  On 5
March 2002 we're hosting a public lecture, sponsored by BT Ignite, where
Alan Cox of Red Hat will be presenting a talk entitled "Doing things
differently - Linux past, present and future".  It will be a view of the
history of the Linux operating system, and the free software movement behind
it. An assesment of where Linux is now, and a look into the future needs and
challenges of the operating system.

As a 'public' lecture we'd like to advertise this to as wide a group as
possible and I was wondering if we could use your distribution lists?  I saw
from your website that there are 4 contacts within Wales that I guess I
could forward the info to, but I'd be grateful for your advice as to the
best way to get this info out to any interested parties.

Look forward to hearing from you
Kind regards
Margaret Day
IT Network Wales
Dept of Computer Science
University of Wales Swansea
01792 295881

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MJR

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