david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) (07/20/89)
At Xhibition'89 I met the fellow who holds the trademark to the name Xview. John Copeland of Image Network produces troff upgrades and add-ons (including a very hot troff upgrade called xroff and also some excellent troff documentation; we're satisfied so far); Xview is an X11R3-based troff page previewer. I think in this case the trademark is enforceable, and he may settle quite nicely with Sun. The names 'Xpr', 'Xpert', 'Xgraph' are those of other Image Network products, but there's probably not a percentage in enforcing these. PS: the other trademarks are Xface, Xsell, Xtc, Xcetera, Xletter, Xroff, Xsim, Xpress, Xclass, Xbooks, Xscan. -- David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu "I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team." - Art Buchwald, "Fan Letter to Nixon"
jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) (07/20/89)
I am Xtremely veXed at the Xtensive use of X most people are showing. Xtra effort should be Xerted to Xtreme lengths to Xploit the possibilty for product names without X's in them. Maybe we should Xterminate people who use X by Xcavating a toXic waste dump for them, taX them on a piXel basis, Xtrude them from a 1" pipe, or take other Xtreme measures, or there will be nothing Xtant written which looks anything near normal. I must Xtole the virtures of OSF's choice of Motif for their product's name, for example, where we are spared the usual Xcrable use of X. /usr/dict/words on my machine shows only 588 words with X's in them; at the current rate, we can Xtrapolate that they will all end up trademarks within a few years, and we'll all end up in court arguing about who used which one first. Just because Bob and I never got around to Xpressing a better name for the window system before it was too late doesn't mean everyone else should follow our bad Xample. We should Xpunge words with X from our vocabulary, before we are Xposed as the unoriginal people we are, and eXploited and Xtorted for Xhorbitant sums. Here is the cruX, I hope by this Xhibition and Xhaustive Xercise to raise people's awareness, before we are Xcruciatingly bored by such false deXterity of marketing. - Jim Gettys P.S. If you didn't guess, the above opinion is solely my own, with more than a little bit of humor intended. There are approximately 47 X's in this message, and who knows how many trademarks....
ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) (07/24/89)
> I am Xtremely veXed at the Xtensive use of X most people are showing.
Not extensive enough! Consider the possiblities that have been missed:
sixteen vi(1)-style editor for X
xacto cut(1) variant
xcommunicate merger of ftp(1) and tip(1)
xenon GNU assembler variant
xerox user-friendly cp(1)
xhume menu-based dbx(1)
xlax Flight Simulator clone
xmas mouse-controlled, Spanish-language version of more(1)
xplore screen-oriented find(1) functionality
xtent object metrics a la size(1)
xterminate point-and-click-style kill(1)
xon decompiler--dumps stuff in C
xox replacement for yacc(1)/bison(1)
xpunge interactive version of rm(1)
xspouse nags you about leaving (like Berkeley's leave(1))
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1961-89: 28 years of nothing (in Canada)
Arthur David Olson ado@alw.nih.gov ADO is a trademark of Ampex.rlk@THINK.COM (Robert L. Krawitz) (07/25/89)
Date: 24 Jul 89 15:25:59 GMT From: nih-csl!elsie!ado@uunet.uu.net (Arthur David Olson) xcommunicate merger of ftp(1) and tip(1) No, it's an interactive version of vipw(8) that only lets you remove users from your system. xerox user-friendly cp(1) That's already a trademark. Of course, Xerox Corp. could release this program... ames >>>>>>>>> | Robert Krawitz <rlk@think.com> 245 First St. bloom-beacon > |think!rlk Cambridge, MA 02142 harvard >>>>>> . Thinking Machines Corp. (617)876-1111