Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/07/21/17:35:40
Peter Gerwinski wrote:
>
> Kevin Bagnall (umbagnal AT cc DOT umanitoba DOT ca) wrote:
> > It's like when you meet someone with the same name as yours and you say "hey!,
> > you have the same name as me, that's so cool, meaningless, but cool!"
>
> If they make `Allegro' a trademark, this could become a problem.
> The same happened for the `Spinner' WWW daemon which is now called
> `Roxen', and somebody tried (is still trying?) the same for `Linux'.
I don't think that'll be a problem. It's just a code name right? Win95
was code named Chicago... they never used the name, or copyrighted it,
as far as I know. Same with Copland and all those other code names.
They're just temporary.
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