RE: [Passwordsafe-devel] Password Safe "Pro"

[Rony S. <ro...@gm...>]

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: pas...@li... 
> [mailto:pas...@li...] 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, fp...@fp...
> 
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