From:	Jeff Weeks <pweeks AT execulink DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Future version of MacOS code named Allegro
Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:07:26 -0400
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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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