{"id":497,"date":"2005-05-03T17:48:36","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T22:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=497"},"modified":"2005-05-04T06:34:20","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T11:34:20","slug":"tiger-tyger-tigercats-lulus-and-red-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/tiger-tyger-tigercats-lulus-and-red-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger, Tyger, TigerCats, Lulus and Red Hats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ticats.ca\/modules\/featpic\/photos\/Hamilton.jpg\" alt=\"Hamilton TigerCats\" align= right \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/05\/03\/2045215&#038;tid=123&#038;tid=179&#038;tid=3\">Most Slashdotters miss the humour<\/a> (note Canadian spelling) of <a href=\"http:\/\/books.lulu.com\/Machine\">Bob Young&#8217;<\/a>s offer to give <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.com\">Apple<\/a> a free license for the use of the term &#8220;Tiger.&#8221; Bob owns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticats.ca\/\">Canadian Football&#8217;s Hamilton TigerCats<\/a> who have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticats.ca\/index.php?module=ContentExpress&#038;func=display&#038;ceid=31\">the Tigers continually since 1869.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tigerdirect.com\/\">TigerDirect<\/a> is suing Apple claiming that Apple&#8217;s use of Tiger infringes on TD&#8217;s trademark specifically by knocking TD down the results pages when one searched Google for the word &#8220;Tiger.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/magazine\/002dec04\/features\/name\/\">Bob Young<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\">Red Hat Linux<\/a> founder and current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\">Lulu<\/a> CEO, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globetechnology.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20050502.gttigermay2\/BNStory\/Technology\/\">says:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This lawsuit is a load of <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=codswallop\">codswallop<\/a>. Nobody and no company should have the exclusive use of the word &#8216;tiger.&#8217;<br \/>\n136 years ago we were called The Tigers. If anyone owns the exclusive rights to the word &#8220;tiger&#8221; with that much history and tradition, it&#8217;s gotta be us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a recent check (2 seconds ago), the first result for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=tiger\">a Google search for &#8220;Tiger&#8221;<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5tigers.org\/\">dedicated to the 5 subspecies of Tigers<\/a> and the second was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tigerdirect.com\/\">TigerDirect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who can use the word <em>&#8220;codswollop&#8221;<\/em> in a complete sentence is someone I admire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Slashdotters miss the humour (note Canadian spelling) of Bob Young&#8217;s offer to give Apple a free license for the use of the term &#8220;Tiger.&#8221; Bob owns Canadian Football&#8217;s Hamilton TigerCats who have been the Tigers continually since 1869. TigerDirect is suing Apple claiming that Apple&#8217;s use of Tiger infringes on TD&#8217;s trademark specifically by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","category-information-commons","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}