John McAfee Can Finally Use His Own Name Again (fossbytes.com) 52
An anonymous reader quotes Fossbytes:
It was last year when, John McAfee, the co-founder of an antivirus company that's now owned by Intel, took Intel to the court over the right to use his name for commercial purposes... According to a Reuters report, the US District Judge Paul Oetken has dismissed the 2016 case and the counter lawsuit filed by Intel. The two parties have settled upon a mutual agreement which allows John Mcafee to use his name for promotions, presentations, and advertisements. He can't link his name to any product or service related to cyber security and security.
McAfee told the BBC that he can't directly name a company after himself, adding "I can live with that. That certainly beats having to live with 'The Entrepreneur Formerly known as McAfee.'"
Johnny Depp is still scheduled to play McAfee in a movie called "King of the Jungle," which will focus on the period of his life when McAfee fled a police investigation in Belize.
McAfee told the BBC that he can't directly name a company after himself, adding "I can live with that. That certainly beats having to live with 'The Entrepreneur Formerly known as McAfee.'"
Johnny Depp is still scheduled to play McAfee in a movie called "King of the Jungle," which will focus on the period of his life when McAfee fled a police investigation in Belize.
Only an idiot would use their name for Company (Score:1)
A company is a legal private entity whose ownership may change hands. Naming a company after you is just asking to lose the commercial rights to your name.
Only a true idiot would, for the second time, use their name for a company.
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FSF GNU would have been a success if only Mr Richard Stallman had named the company Dick Stall Man and the product Glory Hole.
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No, the reason that HURD failed was that the whole project was treated as an open-ended computer science experiment, rather than a task that needed to be completed by time X, and improved periodically thereafter, like everything else - Linux, BSD, Minix, et al. Instead, they kept experimenting w/ different obscure microkernels, and never got complete. They'd have done better had they taken Minix 3, relicensed their fork under GPL3, and then built on that. In fact, all they would have needed would have b
Re:Only an idiot would use their name for Company (Score:5, Informative)
Dell
Black & Decker
Ford
Chrysler
DuPont
Eli Lilly
Glock
Harley Davidson
Hewlett Packard
JC Penney
Sears
Levi Strauss
McDonalds
Porsche
Daimler-Benz
DeLorean
Lamborghini
Ferrari
Honda
Kawasaki
Peugeot
Renault
Proctor and Gamble
Rolls Royce
Mazda
Toyota
Suzuki
Walt Disney
Re:Only an idiot would use their name for Company (Score:4, Interesting)
I'd go with Horch. It's founder, August Horch, got ousted from his company. A court ruled that he doesn't own the rights to his name, thus he named the next company Audi (Latin translation of "Horch" ("listen")).
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Interesting. I'd always just assumed it was Auto Union $foo $bar since they have the same logo.
Re:Only an idiot would use their name for Company (Score:4, Funny)
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--GBS
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And General Electric. ;)
--GBS
Although when they were a startup it was still called Colonel Electric...
Re:Only an idiot would use their name for Company (Score:4, Interesting)
Everything suddenly changed in 1977 when Coca-Cola acquired Taylor Wine. One morning Walter came into work to discover that they had filed an injunction against him and Bully Hill Vineyards— preventing him from using the word “Taylor” on anything related to Bully Hill. Walter, believing that no one had the right to take his name from him quickly appealed but could not win against the behemoth legal team assembled against him.
In the end he was ordered to follow a list of stipulations dictating what he could and couldn’t “say” when it came to his name and ancestry. The list banned Walter:
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Mod parent up for link to hilarious video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
I have a better name for the movie... (Score:3)
Fear and Loathing in Belize.
Why? (Score:2)
McAfee the product sucks bigly. He should change his name to avoid association.
not much seems to have changed (Score:2)
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He has clear rules now saying what he can and cannot use his name for. That's an improvement over having to live with the constant threat of legal action if the new owners decide he broke a rule they invented on the spot.
Intel McAfee? (Score:2)
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His software was pretty good. So was Peter Norton's. When they were actually involved.
They both sold their names with the software. That software turned into a steaming pile of junk with a marketing gimmick (preinstalled crapware, 30 days free, won't uninstall).
There really ought to be an audit of those bastards, find the person that thought up that trick and allow the interested world to take turns kicking him in the nuts. Say 4 kicks/day for the rest of his life.
Side Story (Score:2)
Does anyone know what happened with that gal who was with him in Belize and suddenly just burned all the "research" he paid her to do and then just took off? I've always been curious about that thread of the story but haven't seen anything.
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That's contradictory on it's face.
Are the Green, Constitutionalist and Communist Workers Party candidates also serious presidential candidates? How about Vermin?
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I can't imagine any Communist voters who would have found something wrong enough w/ Jill Stein to go for Communist Workers.
Typically, Libertarians are an asterisk, but this time, they were expected to do well due to the perception that both parties were fielding their weakest candidates (turned out later that the Republicans were not!) They got quite a bit of coverage from John Stossel, and McAfee was a regular in the Libertarian primary debates, which they broadcast. Also, in the general, the Libertari
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