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| Chris:
--- Quote from: CyberPunk on June 07, 2005, 09:47:40 am ---The person reviewing this wanted to know when "mame" was first used in "commerce" by the mamedevs...anyone have any insight on this? --- End quote --- I knew this would come up. The question is whether or not they got compensated for the Hanaho deal in actual dollars (not exchange of goods). If so, it's that date. If not, to the best of my knowledge it has not been used in commerce yet. |
| Lilwolf:
I don't believe it would just be that. Remember the guy who tried getting the trademark for Linux.... That lasted long and he could only trademark mud after that. He was slammed. Think of Foley who is now at the Tim Eckels in ranking in the community. |
| Lilwolf:
BTW, that sucks that they dropped your ebay account... Is there even a vague possibility that it was MAME then changed (the queue problem before)? It didn't sound like it. Hopefully they can take care of this ASAP. |
| RayB:
Regardless of what we think of Foley, the fact is we do not know what "deal" was struck with the MAME devs. It could very well be that they (MAME devs) struck a bad deal. (They might have quickly bent over out of fear, or stupidity... who knows). They might not have even paid for any legal counsel for all we know! From the looks of it, MAME devs are just following Foley's very same actions. So it's possible Foley is still calling the shots. |
| Shape D.:
Or maybe its the fact he's selling things under the name Mameroom.com So did you come up with the name for your site before MAME was around? and Have you asked them for permission to use the name mameroom? Sounds to me like you are using their name for your own good, and using thier reputation to make money. Thus leaving you with no room to complain. |
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