Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Major announcement

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From: "Guy Harris" <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 02:40:56 -0700 (PDT)
Erwin Rol wrote:

> Can I conclude from that that is was just a personal "fight" between
> Gerald and NSI that made him decide to move.

>From everything I've heard from Gerald, no, that's not what made him
decide to move.  I'll let him give more details if he wants to.

> Maybe there should be looked at a way to make
> "wireshark" more independent from problems like that.

The "Wireshark" trademark is, for better or worse, owned by CACE.

I don't know how much it costs to file for a trademark, so I don't know
how practical it would have been for Gerald, or for the
Ethereal/Wireshark/whatever community, to do so.


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