Re: [syndication] Re: I'm confused

["Mark Ketzler" <mketzler@bizslice.com>]

> Hmm, then perhaps I live in a different world than you do. If RSS were a
> software project, that had clearly been abandoned by its developers, would
> it be wrong of me to (independently) issue a new version, using all new
> code? If there was no one I could contact at the software company about
it,
> I would go ahead and release a new version. If there are problems, we
would
> resolve them when they came up. However, I seriously doubt this would
> happen.

Yes it would be wrong, since you are trying to use the name that does not
belong to you for your own ends. This in not the high-seas, you can't
declare things abondoned and then take them.
>
> AFAIK, we're doing nothing illegal. Netscape doesn't own a registered
> trademark on the letters RSS.

You do not need a registered trademark to have a prior claim to something.
No IP lawyer would allow you to use this name in a commercial setting.

Mark Ketzler