book writing
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i am currently writing a book and i need some insight if there a tradmark royalty that i need to pay if i metion GNU? it going to be use by the anti hero.
i don’t think GNU is a trademark i have never seen (R) or TM
on the gnu logo or text
so i don’t think you have anything to worry about.
and it also means wilder-beast so it would be like a company called donkey stopping you using the word
*then again i don’t no if windows is a trademark?
GNU and its logo are actually registered trademarks.
But for merely mentioning them, you do not need to pay any royalties, like any other mark.
I am a member!
There is a trademark on Windows, but it's not clear that it is a valid trademark. Lindows was sued by Microsoft and the defence was "desktop windows pre-dates Microsoft use of windows to describe a windowing environment/operating environment/system" or something like this. Which is true. There were lots of different windowing environments. Just look at X Windows. Anyway- long story short Microsoft didn't want to lose its trademark so they settled for 20 million to avoid it being invalidated. Nobody would have settled if not for there being a real risk here. That is 20 million was paid to Lindows to change its name. What a great deal, a?
wow lucky people!
good now back to my book!
what will the book be about?
im basically making a nordern tale of an japanese myth.
I'm also writing a book (non-fiction), and thinking about trying out some of the collaborative authoring platforms I discovered when doing some research for a project in this works:
http://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/existing-authoring-platforms
Does anyone have any experience with any of the platforms in this list (including any information about software dependencies and licensing for them), or any free code platforms you'd suggest I try?
Since my book is a solo project, at the moment, the simplest solution seems to be using text files, and sync them to an ownCloud server (eg OpenMailBox.org). However, once I have a complete first draft (or maybe second draft ;) if would be cool to allow people to help identify typos and mistakes as they read, and push suggested fixes back to me through a GIT-like workflow.
i am not doing coactive man- write nw im just using Libre office
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