<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Tilghman Lesher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tilghman@meg.abyt.es">tilghman@meg.abyt.es</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Steve Totaro wrote:<br>
<div class="im">> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote:<br>
>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Steve Totaro wrote:<br>
>> > I am not sure why it is not maintained when Jim Dixon has the code on<br>
>> > the repo, supposedly something in Asterisk is broken and broke app_rpt.<br>
>><br>
>> No, when the change from Zaptel to DAHDI was made, the API was cleaned<br>
>> up in the process, and that broke the interface. The change from<br>
>> Zaptel to DAHDI was all about someone else's trademark on the Zaptel<br>
>> name. The maintainers of app_rpt have made a strategic decision that<br>
>> they don't want to do the work to make their code compatible with<br>
>> DAHDI. There's no technical reason why they couldn't -- there's<br>
>> several competing hardware manufacturers who have kept pace and made<br>
>> their work compatible with DAHDI.<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> I know all about the name change. The name change was bogus anyways, a<br>
> calling card company and a company that works with a multi function VoIP<br>
> platform are different enough to have the same name.<br>
<br>
</div>That's a nice legal theory. Will it hold up in court? Do you have<br>
the money to spend to see if it will hold up in court? Digium has<br>
staff attorneys, and they apparently either didn't think that it would<br>
hold up in court, or they didn't want to spend the money to make it<br>
hold up in court. It is much easier and less costly to change a name.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Easy and beneficial to change the name, don't blame it on that calling card company, Digium declined to contest the merits of the stop and desist. </div>
<div><br></div><div>It also gave Digium something to put a Federal Trademark on, just like Asterisk. A win-win.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><br>
> <a href="http://business.zibb.com/trademark/zaptel/29737279" target="_blank">http://business.zibb.com/trademark/zaptel/29737279</a><br>
><br>
> Filing Date:1999<br>
><br>
> Zaptel used by Jim Dixon common law trademark with interstate commerce was<br>
> at the latest 1999 and probably earlier. I cannot find the original BSD<br>
> driver for the first Tormenta card, but that was the start of the Zaptel<br>
> Telephony Project. If it was before the federal filing date, then they had<br>
> no grounds for anything laying claim.<br>
<br>
</div>No. Timeline matters for copyright law. This is trademark law. It<br>
is completely different.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Um wrong. Pretty clear cut <a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/qa-how-does-trademark-law-work/">http://www.dailyblogtips.com/qa-how-does-trademark-law-work/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I could post the actual laws, but this is much more simple for the layman.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
> The timeline is incredible, Zaptel -> DAHDI (2008) Digium bans use of<br>
> Asterisk in Adwords (2008).....<br>
<br>
</div>I'm not sure how that's relevant. Digium already had a trademark on<br>
the Asterisk term before the trademarking of DAHDI.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Who are these competing vendors???? I know of zero.<br>
<br>
</div>Let's start with Xorcom, whose drivers are distributed with DAHDI.<br>
There are others, some of which work with DAHDI drivers as<br>
distributed, some of which modify DAHDI post-distribution.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What is the model or name of the Xorcom Radio Interface? You are being very vague and I cannot find that product offering. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This is all I could really find on Google about Xorcom Radio Interface.<font size="3"> </font></div><div>An exchange starting between John Todd and <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none">Tzafrir Cohen. Funny the second reply is saying exactly what I am, for profit.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration:none"><br></font></div><div><a href="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.telephony.pbx.asterisk.user/227141">http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.telephony.pbx.asterisk.user/227141</a>
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-Tilghman<br>
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-<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Steve Totaro </div></div>