From:	Gunnar Beushausen <user AT beushausen DOT wl DOT eunet DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Future version of MacOS code named Allegro
Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:11:20 +0200
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Jeff Weeks schrieb:

> 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.

I don't think that's true! Chicago and Copland are city names. Names for
cities, rivers or stars cannot be copyrighted. That's why Chicago was
renamed Windows95 or Klamath Pentium II. The name Allegro in fact can be
copyrighted. Perhaps it would be better if Shawn would register the name
for himself? Although i don't know if it's necessary because Mac Allegro
is hardware and Shawn's Allegro is software. I don't know how this is
with hard and software, but you may name cookies for example Windows 95
or Pentium and nobody could sue you.

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