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I was wondering if there is anyone from Lego or someone well versed in legalese that can tell me if it's ok to use 'NXT' in an open source project name? e.g. "leJOS NXT" (19 years ago, 25-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Brian, LEGO posted a very nice message on Lugnet about this a couple years ago, after a news story came out, questioning TLG's approach to such things. (URL) short, the answer will be no. I'm sure they'll be quick to put NXT right next to RCX (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) No, as explained Steve, that's bad... Why not the easy one: leJOS Next? Philo (19 years ago, 26-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks, Steve. At least Lego made it easy for us to play around with the letters to come up with a new name, as Philo mentioned in this thread. :) - Brian (19 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Is the RCX.NET project's name technically a trademark violation? I just started working with José David Parra on a redesign of his original namespace, so now maybe he'll have to rename it, too. :) What's LEGO's position on code namespaces, (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) ... (...) As it turns out, I just started on a project like that. I intentionally went out of my way to avoid using the letters N, X, & T right NeXT to each other. My totally unofficial opinion would be something like this. There's not much (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Would you like to join our project? :) We're still in planning/design mode, so additional input is always good. (19 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Steve, do you think TLG would object to leJOS NeXT? Legally I it should be okay, since I don't think people can trademark a common word like 'Next'. I'm not sure if capitalization of letters matters with regards to trademarks though. Someone (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) NeXT Software was the company, NeXTcube and NeXTstation were the two machines, and NeXTSTEP was the OS. After Apple acquired NeXT (it's more the other way around, actually), a lot of the NeXTSTEP features carried over into Mac OS X, such as (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Heh, just reread Steve's reply and I think the answer is already hidden in there. Didn't spot it the first time. (19 years ago, 5-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Hi, First I am not a lawyer. However I believe Steve Jobs of Apple computers still own the name and trademark of 'NeXT'. They (Apple) are even have gone after websites with domain names using 'ipod' and 'NeXT'. Just give you an idea for (...) (19 years ago, 5-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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Hi, I think as a name XT sounds cool. That gives XTOS for an operating systems and my favourite XTC for a C like programming language (you have to say it out loud a few times). Seems to work OK with Java and Fourth. Thomas (19 years ago, 5-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) You could have XTJ for java and XTF for forth (although fortran also starts with f but somehow I doubt anyone is going to write a fortran compiler for the NXT :P ) (19 years ago, 5-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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