Tuesday, July 17, 2001

KIllustrator becomes Kontour -- 10:20 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

KIllustrator, a drawing program that is a part of the KOffice productivity suite for the Linux KDE desktop, has changed its name to Kontour following a lawsuit. A German law office threatened to sue on behalf of Adobe because of their Illustrator drawing program. The catch is that Adobe may not have authorized the lawsuit in the first place, and the law firm is still asking the author to pony up two grand for legal expenses.

It seems that in Germany law firms can write cease and desist letters to businesses they think are infringing another company's trademarks, without being employed by the latter, and demand payment from the company on the receiving end of the letter. Apparently some law firms make a good living at this.

Just another reason to hate lawyers, as if we didn't have enough already. Thanks Slashdot.

News for 07/17/2001

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