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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
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Subject: Re: SEA files against pkarc author
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Date: 12 Jun 88 10:59:14 GMT
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In article <1283@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>, root@cca.ucsf.edu (Computer Center) writes:
}SEA is claiming that the names PKARC and PKXARC violate their trademark
}on the name ARC and their claimed copyright on the product's appearance
}and user interface.

What's next--SEA filing against Rahul because ZOO is a single program to 
create/extract archives and puts commandline arguments in the same order as
ARC does?  Copyrighting ARC's "user interface" is ridiculous, due to the small
number of possibilities on a command line.  Besides, Un*x "ar"  had that
commandline format first :-)
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