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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X Windows (tm)
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Date: 13 Jul 89 21:27:44 GMT
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In article <1137@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> ric@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Richard Campbell) writes:
>On Page 8 of "The Sun Observer" is an advertisement by Quest Systems Corporation
>describing their X server port, "QuestWindows", to Sun Microsystems workstations.
>While acknowldging that "X" and "X Window System" are trademarks of (apparently) MIT,
>Quest states that "QuestWindows", "X Classic", *and* "X Windows" are trademarks of Quest!
>We know that Robert Scheifler has said he doesn't particulary like the name X Windows;
>has he just lost the rights to that name?

The name has ben "misused" so much that is very doubtful anybody will be
able to "trademark" the X-Windows name.  IBM has been calling their version
of the X Window System "X-Windows" since a year ago, for example.

-- Marco Papa
   USC-ACSC
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