Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!jack!man!crash!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,talk.bizarre Subject: Re: Silly IBM law suit Message-ID: <1424@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 18:33:23 EDT Article-I.D.: gryphon.1424 Posted: Thu Sep 3 18:33:23 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 17:23:36 EDT References: <681@neoucom.UUCP> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 41 Keywords: 2 is a trademark of IBM Summary: First Pixar, then DEC, now IBM ? Xref: mnetor comp.sys.ibm.pc:7474 talk.bizarre:3530 In article <681@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes: >I just heard on the news that IBM is suing Orchid and AST for >mis-using the term PS/2 (apparently tm IBM) in their advertisements. >OK, I'll grant them that. IBM aslo filed suit against AST for >using the suffix "2" in the name of one of their enhancement boards >intended for use with the PS/2. I guess that now that IBM owns the >rights to 2, the rest of us will learn to have to make due with the >other 9 digits. > >Bill (wtm@neoucom.UUCP ...!cbatt!neoucom!wtm) This could pose a problem for me as I have used lots of 2's in many of my programs. Do I have to extract them all and send them to IBM ? What is the work around ? One thing I thought of was redefineing HEX as: 0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f g and calling it sexadecimal, so I tried it and asked sombody here at work to give to me in sex and they hit me, and a guy across the way looked at me funny. Perhaps IBM would reconsider if everyone takes all their 2's from their programs, and send them by US mail to IBM's legal department, with carbon copies to just about everyone there. -- Richard Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard "It's too dark to put the key in my ignition..."