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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:34:06 GMT
- From: goldstein@carafe.dnet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: "The Net <tm>"?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.910.1@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton MA USA
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- In fact, not only is "The Net" a bit broad as a trademark and thus may
- not stand on those grounds, but it has been (almost) used before,
- albeit not as a trademark. A ham radio club in Germany, NordLink,
- produces a program called "TheNet" which, inserted into a common piece
- of ham gear called a TNC, turns the TNC (a Z80-based protocol
- converter) into a sort of primitive router.
-
- OF course NordLink is not in it for money, and has put TheNet in the
- public domain (or copyleft or freeware or something). And thus they
- have no interest in trademarking it. But they were there first. The
- latest version of TheNet, X1G, is said to do IP.
-
-
- Fred R. Goldstein goldstein@carafe.tay2.dec.com
- k1io or goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com voice:+1 508 952 3274
- Standard Disclaimer: Opinions are mine alone; sharing requires permission.
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