Re: Apple stealing "Lily"

[Michael Gerdau]

>> And none of this is really relevant here on the Lilypond mailing list
>> anyway.  Since when did Lilypond hold exclusive trademarks over every
>> English word that may or may not have been derived from "lily", and
>> what does this even have to do with Apple, since the Lily app isn't
>> even made by Apple themselves in the first place?  Sounds like
>> uninformed alarmists' kneejerk reaction to me.
> 
> <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/27/apple_lawyers/>
> 
> Trademark wars have become silly.

Just because something appears silly or way of does not mean apple will
try it - provided they see the shadow of money in it.

Anybody remembering apple sueing apple records for trademark infringement?

For the younger among us:
apple records was the record label founded by the Beatles which predated
apple computers ever so slightly (and it featured an apple as logo).

Guess who _might_ have been inspired by whom...

Or apple filing a lawsuit against M$ for copying the concept of
graphical UI using mouse and windows and such thereby completely
ignoring the fact that apple stole this whole concept from Xerox.


That having said, while I certainly think apple is not above silly
lawsuits, I don't think this particular lily app is meant to destroy
lilypond.

Kind regards,
Michael
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