[Asterisk-Users] opencall.org is changing to soft-switch.org

Danny Froberg
2005-02-27T05:19:40Z

Hi Steve,

I sure hope that youre making HP pay for the domain. They should compensate
you for the inconvenience and cost of switching domains since they havent
upheld their trademark on the web untill now.

Let me know if you need a lawyer.

/Danny

On Sunday 27 February 2005 09.27, Steve Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone using my spandsp or unicall software please note that
> opencall.org is shifting to soft-switch.org. HP have a line of telephony
> products called Opencall, which were very obscure in 1999, when I
> registered opencall.org. A search for "opencall" on Google back
then
> returned only references to theatrical agents. opencall.com and
> opencll.net were theatrical sites. Now a search for "opencall" on
Google
> returns thousands of hits for HP's stuff, and I have dropped to number
3
> :-)
>
> HP's lawyers have contacted me about the conflict. They say HP has
> OpenCall trademarked in lots of places, which seems strange for such a
> generic name. I have no wish to be associated with the HP stuff, so I
> registered a new name. At the same time, I also registered spandsp.org,
> so that name works too.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
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Many Regards.

Danny Froberg