I cut my *nix teeth admining a Solaris box though, so I had some fond memories - until today.
As a few people know, I work for a small online games company you've never heard of. We do online sports management sims based on the lower, amateur side of sports. The oldest game we have is Sunday League which has been around since mid-2000 and takes its impetus from Sunday League Football wherein a number of variously talented lads with degrees of fitness attempt to injure each other on the field of
Long before I arrived Cat Games decided to trademark Sunday League. This is, sadly, a long, involved process which is one of many ways for lawyers to squeeze money out of you. It gets even worse when a big company like Sun decides to take a pop at you. A care package came back from the lawyers today - Sun is apparently blocking our trademark on the basis that people might get confused; that they would think Sun were involved in Sunday League. That, to be more specific, when people heard “Sunday League” they might think of a “league” or range of “Sun Ray” or “Sun Blade” products and, I don't know, sign up for our game instead of buying an over-priced web server.
We just think they're bat-shit insane.
If I hadn't seen the trademark game played before, I'd think this was a joke. But, sadly, it's business as usual, especially for larger corporations. The worst part is quite a lot of times, they win, even though you can't imagine they'd have a shot in hell.