“Apple Computer in the coming months will change the name of its Rendezvous networking technology to ‘Bonjour,’ according to company documents shown to AppleInsider. Last year, Tibco Software of Palo Alto, Calif., entered into a trademark dispute with Apple over its use of the Rendezvous name, alleging that the Apple technology, used in products such as Mac OS X and the iTunes Music Store, infringed on its exclusive rights to the Rendezvous name,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider.
“In July 2004, AppleInsider reported that the two companies agreed to end the dispute through a mutual out of court settlement. Sources close to the negotiations said that, as part of the deal, Apple agreed to phase out its use of the ‘Rendezvous’ name in time,” Jade reports. “Apple’s Rendezvous technology, also known in the industry as Zero Configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. It uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically find each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers.”
Full article, with information about “Bonjour” in Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X “Tiger” release and what happened to “OpenTalk,” here.
MacDailyNews Take: If Apple couldn’t use “Rendezvous,” we liked “OpenTalk” better than we like “Bonjour.”
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For the record, my toast is French, too.
Worst. Rebranding. Ever.
“They can call it “Networks-for-Sure”
Man alive, that is one hysterical post.
Hey, beryllium, before you name-call, learn to SPELL your insult. It’s Xenophobia, not Zenophobia!
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does that mean Francophiles are uneducated and ignorant?
Hmmmm….
RT,
Perhaps beryllium was using the French keyboard. You know, the one without an X key.
Ribbit.
Bonjour, monsieur:
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/26/
The above is NOT work-safe.
The above is NOT child-safe.
The above is in VERY POOR taste.
You will laugh you *ss off, however.
It should be:
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Toimii, Perkele!
or…
Vittuun Windows!
There are so many cool languages and excellent words in the world; it seems kind of a shame that people can’t just share.
Rendezvous is a French word that has also been used by English speakers to describe a coming together for ages. Here in northern Canada, we have an annual winter festival that’s been called the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous since the 1950’s. I wonder if some rabid capitalist will come along and say we can’t use it anymore ’cause it’s been registered with an American patent office as a copyright by a california software company that no one here has even heard of.
People have got to calm down and start enjoying life again. Just relax already.
Chrisnorth said:
I doubt it.
Over in the Czech town of Ceske Budovice, which in German “Budweis” (it’s in Bohemia, which for hundreds of years before 1871 was an eastern part of the Deutsches Reich v 1.3.8 (or so…the exact release number escapes me) the historic local town-brewed beer was known as..Budweiser.
Some time ago, I saw a 60 Minutes report that detailed the attempt of Anheuser-Busch to get permission to sell thier own version of Budweiser in Europe, and, essentially, to get the rights to the name away from the Czech Budweiser brewery.
Long story short, they failed.
So in your case, I wouldn’t worry. Unless, of course, the Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous started developing software and selling it in the USA…or that company Apple settled with organized a backwoods Northern Canadian get-together. B-)
How About naming it F*ck? I like that. Do you?
RT: “Hey, beryllium, before you name-call, learn to SPELL your insult. It’s Xenophobia, not Zenophobia!
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does that mean Francophiles are uneducated and ignorant?”
No it doesn’t.
And for everyone’s information – the English language [the same one that Americans speak] is 60% French in origin. The official language of the English court was in fact French until c.1500 and English was only spoken by the peasants.
I’ll give one example: there is no common English word for a place to eat food (we tend to use ‘restaurant’ instead – a French word).
So all the xenophobic, anti-French assholes go somewhere else to peddle your racism.
How ’bout Apple sue everyone who ever tried to sue them on the grounds that they weren’t allowed put a dictionary word to better use? In my opinion it should be illegal to trademark any single word that’s in the dictionary; for example, you could trademark the phrase Apple Computer because it’s a very specific expression, but not just the word Apple BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE RIDICULOUS!!! These guys and Paul McCartney should get a life!