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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Adobe flagellating PostScript trademark
Message-ID: <4294@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 1 Apr 88 12:51:26 GMT
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bp@pixar.uucp (Bruce Perens) wrote:
> Just as AT&T has (and exercises) the right to restrict what you can
> call "UNIX", Adobe can restrict use of their tradmark "PostScript".

This begins to sound like Ada, where the specs are in the public domain
but the War Dept. controls who can claim to have implemented it.  You
are free to implement an Ada, but you can't call it that.  You are free
to implement a PostScript, but you can't call it that?  Something tells
me our laws need changing when you can put something's specs in the
public domain while keeping its name proprietary.

It's a good thing the first guy to build a toaster didn't trademark
"Toaster" or we'd have lawyers chasing us to call it a "bread browning
machine".
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