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(...) That was not the cause for my RFC. You do a wonderful job! And legOS does it as well. No real overwhelming cause for doing a new release. (...) Well, not really. I wold favour other solutions first: - if you can go on with legOS-maintainance - (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Michael Obenland" <obenland@t-online.de> wrote in message news:GrBqw5.KL4@lugnet.com... (...) A recursive acronym in the GNU style? KNEBL: KNEBL's Not Endorsed By Lego or snebl, fnebl... Should keep 'em happy :) Tim (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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It is a shame that the name legOS can not be kept. I think it describes the software perfectly. And if it can't be used in the future (which I suggest some begging and pleading here) I would have a name that has OS in it to best describe it. For (...) (23 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) How about msOS (for MindstormsOS)? Oh, wait, we'd probably have Bill on our tails with that one... ROSCO (23 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Or what about brOS for Brick OS? Mike (23 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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How about rOS or rcxOS? I think it should support USB in next relase. Zhengrong (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Just remember that Mindstorms and RCX are also trademarks. Jürgen (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) ROS is already reserved for my upcoming Router Operating System... Please, please don't choose that name (I have no TMs or anything, but it would be nice not to choose that). (...) /~\ Eddie C. Dost ASCII ribbon campaign \ / ecd@skynet.be (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) How about RobOS? /~\ Eddie C. Dost ASCII ribbon campaign \ / ecd@skynet.be against HTML mail X / \ (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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There are actually several other trademarks owned by The LEGO Group and some guidelines to using the LEGO trademark. They can be found in their Press Kit on their web site (URL) retract my earlier statement that we should ask for usage of the name (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm rather familiar with those pages :) Really, legOS is basically Mindstorms specific. Porting it elsewhere would be basically not worthwhile. And trust me, Markus has asked about legOS. Honestly, if that article had never been written, this never (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Luis, What is involved with being the "maintainer" of the project under SourceForge? Ed (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Basically four things: 1) Getting a sourceforge account and having me designate the person a maintainer. 2) Using sourceforge CVS to maintain the canonical CVS tree for legOS; this is basically very typical CVS stuff- committing the incoming (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) For me, BrickNix is good. But it sounds very far away from legOS. I think I like robOS more. It looks and sounds like legOS. So my list is: 1 - robOS 2 - BrickNix I don't have a number 3 favorite. Did LEGO say anything about their feelings (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) me, (...) written, (...) and/or (...) Well, even though it has a few Unix-ie functions, I don't really see it as a -nix. My personal favourite is NogOS (for Marcus), but BrickOS is good, too. ROSCO (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) You could also try BricxOS (in a similar fashion to BricxCC), which also happens to have RCX in it. Martin (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) We asked our lawyers about this many months ago, when the whole issue first came up. It's okay with them if the name "legOS" is used in a "formerly known as" context. Just like what you describe, basically - to make sure people understand that (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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