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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7233 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:50:27 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] pcvt 2.00 - VT220 console driver: Name change? Date: 19 Jan 1993 20:06:09 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1jhmvhINNor0@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <1617@hcshh.hcs.de> <1628@hcshh.hcs.de> <61950@aurs01.UUCP> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu Keywords: 386BSD console driver VT220 namechange In article <61950@aurs01.UUCP> davis@aurw17.aur.alcatel.com.UUCP (Alan Davis) writes: | | In article <1628@hcshh.hcs.de> hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) | writes: || || 2) I have received mail from Mark C. DiVecchio (markd@silogic.uucp). || He writes: || || "I have been using the name PC-VT for a program which I have had || out as shareware since 1984. The name is copyrighted." | | Why would the name of a driver subsystem require a name change because | a program that runs under a completely different os has a similar | name? Not only that, but you can't copyright a name. This person is confused. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!