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1997-10-07 - Re: Trademarking CypherSpace???

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Raw Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:24:59 +0800

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From: no@spam.com
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:24:59 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Trademarking CypherSpace???
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Bill Stewart wrote:

> Sigh.  A company called I-Planet is trying to trademark the term
> "Cypherspace", even though we've been using it for a couple of years
> in the cypherpunk community.  They're doing an IPSEC Virtual Private
> Network, with friendly HTML administration;
> http://www.i-planet.com/P2cypherpb.html . Looks like interesting stuff,
> and I wish them luck except in TMing the name :-)

What these guys are selling is an embedded unix box with some crypto code
in the kernel, plus socks, sendmail, named, apache, and some fax software
pre-installed, for $5000.  Pretty high price for a 100 mhz FreeBSD box,
tho I suspect they have substantial tech support costs.

I saw no mention of trademark claims for "cypherspace" on their web site.

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