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Re:Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes by dirkgently on Friday July 19, 2013 @02:21AM (#6068613)
> Apple has yet to sue anyone other than blatant and uninspired copyists, so I just don't care about the issues you feel so strongly about.

Where do we start? Lets see:

Apple v/s New York City over 'GreeNYC' logo : http://www.widespotlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/gree...

Apple v/s Victoria School of Business and Technology over this logo : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Victoria_...)

Apple v/s Woolworths Limited over this logo - http://www.topnews.in/files/Woolworths.gif

Apple v/s Amazon for the use of "App"

And let's not talk about the abuse of Rounded Corners (TM)(R)(C)

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Re:Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes by cjensen on Friday July 19, 2013 @01:55PM (#6071754)
That would appear to be standard "you must defend your trademark or else it is invalid" lawsuits. Those cases have nothing to do with software freedom.
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Re:Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes by dirkgently on Friday July 19, 2013 @09:29PM (#6073947)
Oh yes, those logos were so very close to Apple logo.

Common bully behavior is worse then propitiatory software madness.

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