Newsgroups: comp.lang.dylan
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!MathWorks.Com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!mv!mv.mv.com!drd
From: drd@mv.mv.com (David R. Dick)
Subject: Re: Alleging name theft, Bob Dylan sues Apple Computer
Message-ID: <Cw0qqA.L9r@mv.mv.com>
Nntp-Posting-Host: mv.mv.com
Sender: usenet@mv.mv.com (System Administrator)
Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 13:27:45 GMT
References: <dasherCv44tp.Jzx@netcom.com> <33v81c$8c4@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <3400rt$dcu@nyx10.cs.du.edu> <34i6sv$id0@mrnews.mro.dec.com>
Lines: 13

Whatever happened to the fact that you're not supposed to
be able to trademark the name of a language (in the US, at least)?
(Microsoft won a case involving "QuickBasic" based on this.)

I think the fact that no one can call an implementation of the language
"Dylan", unless Apple says so, quite unfair.

What if "C" had been trademarked by ATT? We'd all still be
in their thrall.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc.
[the Software Moving Company; moving software to open systems for over a decade]
