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Viper

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Aug 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/3/97
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http://www.4images.com/ntperl has a "Powered by Perl for Win32" logo
on the main page. This logo may be freely used as long as the ALT
tag is used with the image and its states "Logo by 4images.com".

A small price to pay for use of the logo.

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Richard K. Downer

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Aug 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/4/97
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Viper wrote:
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> http://www.4images.com/ntperl has a "Powered by Perl for Win32" logo
> on the main page. This logo may be freely used as long as the ALT
> tag is used with the image and its states "Logo by 4images.com".
>
> A small price to pay for use of the logo.

Hmmmm.... It says on this web site that "O'Reilly said we can't use
camels on this site... So we use Rhinos." How many people think of Perl
when they see a Rhino?

This is very odd, considering that O'Reilly uses 18th and 19th century
woodcuts for their covers because they are in the public domain and thus
O'Reilly doesn't have to worry about copyrights. How can O'Reilly
prevent anyone from using the image of a camel in connection with Perl?
In connection with a book about Perl, maybe. Given the public domain
source of their cover art, how can they even prevent someone else from
using the exact same woodcuts?
--
Rick Downer
rkd...@ballard.ca.boeing.com

These opinions are not mine, they're Boeing's. Boeing paid me while I
opined them, so Boeing owns them. But Boeing might not agree with them.

Viper

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Aug 16, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/16/97
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On Thu, 14 Aug 1997 17:11:55 GMT, da...@enterprise.net (Matthew
Burnham) scribbled these simple words:

|"Richard K. Downer" <rkd...@ballard.ca.boeing.com> wrote:
|
|>Hmmmm.... It says on this web site that "O'Reilly said we can't use
|>camels on this site... So we use Rhinos." How many people think of Perl
|>when they see a Rhino?

|How many people WANT to think of Perl when they're on Safari, whatever
|animal it is they can see? ;)


Funny thing about owing a trademark, you get to control it. The idea
is not to associate the image with Perl, just something to put in it's
place. Sorry you couldn't think that far...

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