Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!W8SDZ From: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: SEA's trademark on ARC allegedly invalid Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 88 07:09:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 24 [Thanks to a reader who pointed out that the signature date didn't match the posting date of my original message offering evidence that SEA's trademark on "ARC" is allegedly invalid. One reader said we should get the ACLU to file a counter suit on behalf of the users.] My signature date was wrong. Did you ever make out a check right after the first of a new month and write in the old month name? That's what happened to me. The message got out before I was able to correct it. The correct date is September 4, 1988. SEA is very unpopular right now. Looks like there is a mass revolt in the MSDOS world. I wouldn't be too surprised to see a wholesale change to whatever new compression method Phil Katz comes up with. The software developers on CIS's IBM Forum are up in arms and there are some VERY hot messages passing there right now. One of SEA's lawyers is involved in the discussion and he's getting all sorts of negative comments from respected names in the MSDOS world. SEA has won the suit and lost the war. --Keith Petersen Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Uucp: {att,decwrl,harvard,ucbvax,uunet,uw-beaver}!simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz GEnie: W8SDZ RCP/M Royal Oak: 313-759-6569 - 300, 1200, 2400 (V.22bis) or 9600 (USR HST)