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Re: Using NXT in a name - legal?
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:17:51 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
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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
TLG can say about code you write for yourself. But, if you’re sharing that
code, it could easily look like LEGO officially endorces it, if it’s called
NXT.NET or something like that. In which case, they may ask you to change
the name. Just avoid that, by using another name.
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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 in our group also mentioned that Steve Job’s defunct operating system
was called NeXT. As far as I know, that’s dead now so he couldn’t object to it,
but maybe someone has a more informed view on this.
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 30-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 (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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