Windows Live and Ableton Live....court case?

prupertplum · Post by **prupertplum** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:57 am

Just seen that Windows are gonna use the Live tag line for a new set of 'web services'.....this could get annoying.

http://ideas.live.com/

Maybe a court case is in order, I am sure Ableton's coffers can rival Microsoft's!

Gits, is all I can say, now when we say Live, people wont know if they are talking about the greatest music production suite in the world, or more costly bloat-don't-work-ware from MS...

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:07 am

beat me to it, I was just going to post this

Now -everyone- will be using "Live"

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:22 am

Very good point. Try doing it the other way around. For example, try to imagine a music software suite called 'Office'... how long would it take for the black choppers to swoop down and take you away into the night?

COndivi · Post by **COndivi** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:37 am

not a big problem i recon. i already refer to it as ableton 5. most people i know call it ableton. its not like there is other ableton software to get it confused with(don't say yes there is.. "operator")

forge · Post by **forge** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:49 am

yeah, I think Ableton is becoming the more common name now - especially since all the added DAW stuff, it's now more like a quick and inspiring music program that can be used live - they took the words "sequencer instrument" off the startup splash in v4 I think!

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:53 am

Yep, I call it Ableton too... I find when recommending it to people that they often say "It's for playing live" and I go "no it's also the best for in the studio".

Some of these are professional producers that actually use or have tried the program but have never considered moving to it as their main DAW

if for some reason they would ever abandon the "Live" name that might not be a bad thing. For me, it makes no difference.

Ableton .......?

radeon · Post by **radeon** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:41 am

Rubbish. Ableton didnt invent the word Live. If ableton tried to take on microsoft it would be bye bye ableton. Dont be silly gentleman

Chris J · Post by **Chris J** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:37 pm

radeon wrote:Rubbish. Ableton didnt invent the word Live. If ableton tried to take on microsoft it would be bye bye ableton. Dont be silly gentleman

it's true but like Anubis was saying, the other way round : if Ableton was to release a program called OFFICE, a word microsoft hasn't invented, there would be most likeky some lawyers involved

exper · Post by **exper** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:26 pm

Just like how Apple records was trying to sue Apple Computers...come on now.

Chris J · Post by **Chris J** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:49 pm

exper wrote:Just like how Apple records was trying to sue Apple Computers...come on now.

shame they couldn't do it though. Apple records was so famous when they decided to take that name too, it was an obvious rip-off, but hard to prove.

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 3:20 pm

It's all good guys... only a matter of time anyhow til MS swallows Ableton and releases MSDJ - the cool music tool for the whole family! They'll do up a nice MS gui (no more of this 2-D crap), throw in the appropriate button bars and away we go!

djastroboy · Post by **djastroboy** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:06 pm

I disagree with the "Office" example.
There's OpenOffice & KOffice and they are doing just fine.
OpenOffice is even owned by Sun!
Microsoft would sue Sun for anything if they could!

Chris J · Post by **Chris J** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:09 pm

djastroboy wrote:I disagree with the "Office" example.
There's OpenOffice & KOffice and they are doing just fine.
OpenOffice is even owned by Sun!
Microsoft would sue Sun for anything if they could!

you're right there. maybe they tried ?

Mr. Computer Dude · Post by **Mr. Computer Dude** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:35 pm

Hey Gang,

The Full Name of The Softwaer is "Soundblaster Live! Ableton's." In the end of the day, you're reserch need's more subsistence.

Mr. Computer Dude
(Da "Wizz" or Live Soundblaster Abelton's)

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 5:02 pm

Just take a look at the disclaimer from the Asio4All site and you'll see that there is real concern about straying into MS territory...

"...Everything else on this page, including the numbers 16, 48 and 100 is or may become a trademark of Microsoft, Corp., except for trademarks of their respective owners that are used for product identification purposes only. The rest, as well as the stuff mentioned above that has not yet become a trademark of Microsoft, Corp...."