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From: davis@aurs01.UUCP (Alan Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] pcvt 2.00 - VT220 console driver: Name change?
Keywords: 386BSD console driver VT220 namechange
Message-ID: <61950@aurs01.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 93 02:31:57 GMT
References: <1617@hcshh.hcs.de> <1628@hcshh.hcs.de>
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Reply-To: davis@aurw17.aur.alcatel.com.UUCP (Alan Davis)
Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC
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In article <1628@hcshh.hcs.de> hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes:
>Just three short notes for the VT220 driver posted to alt.sources some
>days ago:
>
....
>2) I have received mail from Mark C. DiVecchio (markd@silogic.uucp). He writes:
>
>	"I have been using the name PC-VT for a program which I have had
>	 out as shareware since 1984. The name is copyrighted."
>
>   Sorry, we were not aware of this program, and we will change the name
>   of the driver with the next release.

Why would the name of a driver subsystem require a name change because
a program that runs under a completely different os has a similar name?

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Alan Davis                      aur : davis@aurfs1
Alcatel Network Systems         BIX : adavis
adavis@rockdal.aud.alcatel.com  CIS : 72317,3661