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Curious if this name is going to draw the ire of Paramount's copyright lawyers.

by bigdubs 7y ago

slenk 7y ago
Google has a system called Borg, and they are fine. Also, BorgBackup is not new; they have been around for a while.
- bigdubs 7y ago
  My understanding was that the internal Borg was fine because it wasn't publicly available, versus this which is.
  - slenk 7y ago
    The word Borg itself I do not believe is trademarked. I didn't think you could trademark someone's last name? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Borg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Borg A search of borg in the patent office shows the name used a lot: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4806%3Avh5xwi.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=borg&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA2%24COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4806%3Av...
    - trothamel 7y ago
      Why not? If you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(name) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(name) , the surname 'Apple' is used quite a bit.
    - ranDOMscripts 7y ago
      Tell that to Uzi Nissan. https://nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php https://nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php
      - slenk 7y ago
        Wow...that sucks. If I ever bought anything Nissan Motor I would have to reconsider. I hate how easily corruptible trademark/copyright/patent rules are
flurdy 7y ago
Borg? Hardly, there is already a Google product with the same name. But more importantly, it is the name for a castle in several languages. So unless Paramamount is planning to sue a lot of very old places in Norway and other countries...
- capableweb 7y ago
  > there is already a Google product with the same name Borg at Google is not a product per se, it's a internal tool/service. Pretty sure you can name internal tools whatever you want.
beagle3 7y ago
It is named in honour of Jonas Borgström [0], who wrote Attic, from which Borg was forked. [0] https://github.com/jborg https://github.com/jborg

Curious if this name is going to draw the ire of Paramount's copyright lawyers.

slenk 7y ago

Google has a system called Borg, and they are fine. Also, BorgBackup is not new; they have been around for a while.

bigdubs 7y ago
My understanding was that the internal Borg was fine because it wasn't publicly available, versus this which is.
- slenk 7y ago
  The word Borg itself I do not believe is trademarked. I didn't think you could trademark someone's last name? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Borg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Borg A search of borg in the patent office shows the name used a lot: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4806%3Avh5xwi.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=borg&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA2%24COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4806%3Av...
  - trothamel 7y ago
    Why not? If you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(name) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(name) , the surname 'Apple' is used quite a bit.
  - ranDOMscripts 7y ago
    Tell that to Uzi Nissan. https://nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php https://nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php
    - slenk 7y ago
      Wow...that sucks. If I ever bought anything Nissan Motor I would have to reconsider. I hate how easily corruptible trademark/copyright/patent rules are

flurdy 7y ago

Borg? Hardly, there is already a Google product with the same name. But more importantly, it is the name for a castle in several languages. So unless Paramamount is planning to sue a lot of very old places in Norway and other countries...

capableweb 7y ago
> there is already a Google product with the same name Borg at Google is not a product per se, it's a internal tool/service. Pretty sure you can name internal tools whatever you want.

beagle3 7y ago

It is named in honour of Jonas Borgström [0], who wrote Attic, from which Borg was forked. [0] https://github.com/jborg https://github.com/jborg