minor·forces

so i was reading a story on news.com this morning about how Tiger Direct is sueing Apple over their use of the word “tiger” as the nickname for their new operating system version. this got me thinking about how a while back we were hearing stories about microsoft trying to copyright the word “windows”. It is such a sad world we are living in when companies start believing that just because they have enough mony they can buy ANYTHING including and i would assume not limited to the english language. Thats messed up!

So we have Microsoft buying “windows” and tiger direct buying “tiger” (essentially). appearently no one stopped to think about the fact that these are not conceptts made up by these companies for the sole purpose of being marketing tools. i know it is a shocker, but long before these companies existed, in fact long before current systems of ownership even existed windows and tigers existed.

Whats next? I imagine that abstract concepts will be next on the list. i envision bill gates michael eisner and george lucus sitting around in bill’s… oh lets say spaceship (oh you know he has one, he has everything else) brainstorming. They come up with the idea to buy the word/idea of “four”, and replace it with threive. (then Lorne Michaels and/or Jimmy Fallon come along and sue them) What a grand old world we live in.