PhotoMill -> PhotoMaster
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 10203
interpreted = N
texte = >Plus, speaking of names, why did PCS change the name of PhotoMill? What >went wrong with that? Are there lessons there that you can share that are >worth not repeating? I feel that there are enough original mistakes that >we shouldn't go around repeating old ones.Adobe threatened to sue us, because they think the word Mill connected to an internet software product infringes on PageMill and SiteMill. We thought it was complementary. Their lawyers are much bigger than ours.Why Adobe didn't just buy the product outright from us after dropping Fetch, we don't know. Robert Seidl (the author of PageMill) loved to demonstrate PhotoMill in all of his PageMill presentations, because they work so well together with drag and drop. Similarly, someone thought Beyond in BeyondRealms infringed on their copyright, so we had to rename it to SiteGuard. Someday we'll have big lawyers too, and maybe then it won't be so frustrating trying to name a product.Thanks for the opportunity to vent.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | Tools for WebWarriors Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebCommerce Solution 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court, #462 | SiteEdit, SiteCheck, PhotoMaster San Diego, CA 92128 | 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com
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>Plus, speaking of names, why did PCS change the name of PhotoMill? What >went wrong with that? Are there lessons there that you can share that are >worth not repeating? I feel that there are enough original mistakes that >we shouldn't go around repeating old ones.Adobe threatened to sue us, because they think the word Mill connected to an internet software product infringes on PageMill and SiteMill. We thought it was complementary. Their lawyers are much bigger than ours.Why Adobe didn't just buy the product outright from us after dropping Fetch, we don't know. Robert Seidl (the author of PageMill) loved to demonstrate PhotoMill in all of his PageMill presentations, because they work so well together with drag and drop. Similarly, someone thought Beyond in BeyondRealms infringed on their copyright, so we had to rename it to SiteGuard. Someday we'll have big lawyers too, and maybe then it won't be so frustrating trying to name a product.Thanks for the opportunity to vent.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | Tools for WebWarriors Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebCommerce Solution 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court, #462 | SiteEdit, SiteCheck, PhotoMaster San Diego, CA 92128 | 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com
Grant Hulbert
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