Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!agate!linus!think.com!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: name "emacs" owned by anyone? Message-ID: <1990Sep4.182444.21104@Think.COM> Date: 4 Sep 90 18:24:44 GMT References: <25960@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 18 In article bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >In article <25960@cs.yale.edu> spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes: > Could a commercial vendor release a product named "emacs"? >At least two already have: CCA and Unipress. No. CCA released a product named "CCA Emacs", Unipress released "Unipress Emacs"; Honeywell released "Multics Emacs", etc. I think MIT may hold the rights to the name "Emacs" all by itself; even GNU Emacs, primarily written by the author of the original EMACS at MIT, is officially named "GNU Emacs", not just "Emacs" (the introduction to the GNU Emacs Manual refers to GNU Emacs as a member of the "Emacs family of editors"). -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar