From:	peter AT agnes DOT dida DOT physik DOT NO-SPAM-PLEASE DOT de (Peter Gerwinski)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Future version of MacOS code named Allegro
Date:	21 Jul 1997 08:52:27 GMT
Organization:	Universitaet Essen, Germany
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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'.

    Peter

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