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Re: RFC: Creation of Version 0.2.6
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Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:43:48 GMT
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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 would have come up- Lego, Inc. was aware of legOS for two years
before any type of challenge was made. But that is all water under the bridge.

My personal favorites (so far) are the ones that stick to 'brick' themes and/or
*nix-y themes. I believe BrickNix was suggested at one point... I'd be very
happy with that.

That said, none of this naming stuff matters until there is a release, and I
still don't have time to do one. After some further thought, I can dedicate a
weekend in March or April to rolling a tarball and updating the website, but
someone or a group of people need to /email/ me /all/ relevant patches in diff
-u format against current sourceforge CVS. I cannot go back through the email
lists, or all of the stuff on the various websites (lugnet and sourceforge).
Assuming no one else steps up to maintain it, this procedure (/direct/ email +
diff) is the only way things are going in.

TTYL- back to work-
Luis

In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Ed Manlove writes:
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

http://www.lego.com/eng/info/press/presskit.asp

I retract my earlier statement that we should ask for usage of the name legOS
to remain.  In all that I have read The LEGO Group has been very generous
already with trademark infringment issues here. I see it being in the best
interest of all to seperate "what was formally known as legOS" (if I may
make such a statement) from The LEGO Group.

I would even go further but on a more technical issue. Can legOS be ported
to other "platforms"?  In other words is what Markus Noga created and others
have contributed really be an operating system (OS) for 8/16 bit processors?
How specific is it towards the Hitachi Microproccessor? In this sense the OS
can be a generic OS for various platforms including the LEGO Mindstorm.

I am not sure is this is going too far but I also don't want to see conflict
between programmers and The LEGO Group

Ed

In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Juergen Stuber writes:
"Zhengrong Zang" <mikezang@iname.com> writes:

How about rOS or rcxOS?

Just remember that Mindstorms and RCX are also trademarks.

Jürgen



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  Re: RFC: Creation of Version 0.2.6
 
Luis, What is involved with being the "maintainer" of the project under SourceForge? Ed (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
  Re: RFC: Creation of Version 0.2.6
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
  Re: RFC: Creation of Version 0.2.6
 
(...) 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 (22 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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  Re: RFC: Creation of Version 0.2.6
 
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 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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