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Article #75491Re: Re^2: Look 'n' feel 'n' Lotus
From: Jacob Gore
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 1990 03:31
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 1990 03:31
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/ gnu.misc.discuss / rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) / Jul 31, 1990 / > "Ada" is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department > of Defense. The particular rules they have laid on that are that you may > not call your compiler "Ada" unless it passes some sort of "Ada validation > suite". The language Ada is in the public domain (actually, I doubt if one can copyright or trademark or patent a general-purpose programming language at all). Only the name "Ada" is protected with a trademark. You can write a compiler that compiles Ada programs, you just can't call it "Ada compiler" until it passes the validation suite. Same with Eiffel -- the name "Eiffel" is a trademark, the language Eiffel is in the public domain. Jacob -- Jacob Gore Jacob@Gore.Com boulder!gore!jacob
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,5269ed15d204ae6d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-07-31 20:31:41 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!boulder!gore!jacob From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Re^2: Look 'n' feel 'n' Lotus Message-ID: <970022@gore.com> Date: 1 Aug 90 03:31:41 GMT References: <467@pyrmania.oz> Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) Organization: Gore Enterprises Lines: 18 Posted: Wed Aug 1 04:31:41 1990