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From: berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SEA threat to other ARC utility aut
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Date: 6 Sep 88 21:15:00 GMT
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Nf-From: clio.las.uiuc.edu!berger    Sep  6 16:15:00 1988


Regardless of the validity of SEA's use of the term "arc", you're
ignoring some important points.

1. They can lose their right to use the term in a proprietary way
if they don't agressively protect it.  That means pursuing legal
action against ANYBODY infringing on it, big or small.  If they
don't, than any victory is a temporary one.

2. Maybe someone SHOULD go after SEA.  But until somebody convinces
the courts that they have yet a prior claim, it's hard to defend
Katz's et. al. work as being entirely original.  Aside from having
what I consider to be the "look and feel" of the SEA arc programs,
it was INTENDED to work exactly like it.  Had SEA sued them for
writing an adventure game called "Raiders of the Lost ARC" or
something like that, I would have been more sympathetic.

			Mike Berger
			Department of Statistics 
			Science, Technology, and Society
			University of Illinois 

			berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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