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Re: LegOS forced to use another name?
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Mon, 10 Sep 2001 09:58:36 GMT
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"Ross Crawford" <rcrawford@csi.com> writes:

http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,16981,FF.html

says TLC may be talking to Marcus Noga about his use of "LegOS" for the
open-source operating system for the Mindstorms RCX (see last page).
I can see their point.
Personally, I think "NogOS" has a bit of a ring to it 8?)

What does everyone else think?

I think this is speculation by the author of the article.

Apart from the issue about names and trademarks,
for me this article shows an extremely irritating attitude
towards customers, sue people as soon as they use something
in a different way than the manufacturer thought?
The most irritating is that this is presented as the standard
procedure to follow.

Jürgen

--
Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/



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(...) I agree with you, Jürgen. It seems that we have to contend with taht viewpoint though. Hopefully if any of tyhe new product line doesn't do as well as expected, we will not see some genius in the company decide to go after people who add value (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)

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  LegOS forced to use another name?
 
Article here: (URL) TLC may be talking to Marcus Noga about his use of "LegOS" for the open-source operating system for the Mindstorms RCX (see last page). I can see their point. Personally, I think "NogOS" has a bit of a ring to it 8?) What does (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch) ! 

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