RE: Password Safe "Pro"

Folks,

The ads are placed there by Google - as I understand it, SourceForge has no
direct influence on what ads get placed there.

Even if Counterpane reigstered PasswordSafe as a trademark (which I doubt),
they certainly have no legal interest in it today, after placing the product
in open source. I certainly don't have money to spend on lawyers for this,
not to mention time arguing with Google...

There's another possiblity though: under Google's advertising scheme, the
advertiser has to pay Google for each click on the advertisement. 'nuff
said.

	Rony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Frank Pilhofer
> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 10:25 PM
> To: Password Safe Development
> Subject: [Passwordsafe-devel] Password Safe "Pro"
> 
> Hi,
> 
> today, I decided to follow an advertised link for "Password Safe Pro"
> (www.passwordsafepro.com) that you get on SourceForge when browsing
> Password Safe's project pages.
> 
> Not surprisingly, it is a tool that is very similar to Password Safe.
> It comes complete with snake oil: "The Password Safe Pro uses 160-bit
> high security level encryption so your passwords are safe from online
> predators and hackers."
> 
> Other than that and a few screenshots, the Web site is very vague
> about the software. You can download a demo version, which I did not
> do.
> 
> Very probably, the software's name was chosen in ignorance of
> Password Safe's existence. Still, it could be argued that it exploits
> the popularity of Password Safe, and by name implies to be an 
> "improved"
> or "professional" version of the original Password Safe.
> 
> Question is, does anyone care? I presume that Counterpane did register
> the "Password Safe" name as a trademark. Even if not, or if 
> the trademark
> was not continued, I'm sure that a lawyer could make a 
> compelling argument
> for them to change the name of their software.
> 
> Maybe they do not even deserve that kind of attention.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> -- 
> Frank Pilhofer, [email protected]
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep 
> through log files
> for problems?  Stop!  Download the new AJAX search engine that makes
> searching your log files as easy as surfing the  web.  
> DOWNLOAD SPLUNK!
> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&
dat=121642
_______________________________________________
Passwordsafe-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/passwordsafe-devel





-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files
for problems?  Stop!  Download the new AJAX search engine that makes
searching your log files as easy as surfing the  web.  DOWNLOAD SPLUNK!
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642