UK VCF or equivalent - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Aug 2007

This is getting boring!
American law stops at the twelve mile limit anyway.
Unless somebody has a trademark registered in the UK then this whole
thing is nonsense.
If somebody wants to organize shall we say an 'Elderly Electronics Expo'
in the UK then good. 

Rod Smallwood

-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Liam Proven
Sent: 09 August 2007 12:47
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: UK VCF or equivalent

On 07/08/07, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:
...
  On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:28 -0700, Sellam Ismail
wrote:

 Incidentally:

 > *IF* you put on an event of your own and choose to call it the 
 > "Vintage Computer Festival", *THEN* I will bury your event.  Do what

...
   you like, but
find your own name. 
 This is why I wouldn't call it VCF or have anything to do with the US 
 VCFs in any case.  The mere fact that someone has enough ego to go 
 "It's
 *MY* name and if you use it I'll *crush* you, muahahahaha" puts me off 
...
  any further involvement. 
Actually, you have my pretty much complete agreement on that point.

Saying "look, it's my name, I run a business, please talk to me about
using it", fine, no problem.

Saying "it's mine, you want to steal it, I will hunt you down" - well,
that bespeaks some very poor things about the person making the
statement.

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