Slashdot | Apple Sued over Tiger, Injunction Sought

I guarantee you that few people (if anyone) will be buying Mac OS X 10.4 just because it's called Tiger. I doubt even more that anyone is buying it out of association with those ^(**&%$% at Tiger Direct.

How the (*^#%#% can you trademark the name of an animal?????

I've never bought anything from Tiger Direct, but I've thought about it. Now with this *^*&^*, I think it's unlikely that I ever will.

Apple has a much better reputation than Tiger Direct, so if any association is going on, I think that Tiger Direct would be benefiting.

Why do they wait until now? Probably to be as annoying as possible.

Oh now isn't this interesting: TigerDirect specialises in selling computer parts, but not those that would be capable of running Mac OSX.
So that makes the assosiation between the two even less likely, but makes a motive more apparent. If Apple's Mac OS 10.4 is as good as it's supposed to be, perhaps it will be taking some buisness away from PC (non-apple) retailers.

Anyway, TigerDirect is #2 in google, while Apple is #4. #1 and #3 are sites about the untrademarked animal.