Subject: Re: Sparc lawyers prove more stupid than suns (fwd)
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/17/1997 11:05:31
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> I suggest to both NetBSD-sparc && sparclinux that you you change the name
> to 'spark'. Don't fight it- eat the day or two of pain and just go around
> the damn fools.

That would likely still leave us open to trademark infringement,
because `spark' is sufficiently close to `sparc,' and is used in
a similar context, such that it would (as it's obviously intended)
likely make people believe that we are talking about the thing
referred to by the `Sparc' trademark.

Fortunately we have a perfectly good alternative to NetBSD/sparc: NetBSD/sun4.

cjs

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