From: Bob Mathis <73313.2671@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject: Ada Trademark
Date: 1996/08/25
Date: 1996-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <960825183327_73313.2671_FHM37-2@CompuServe.COM> (raw)
Norman H. Cohen (the one who complained that Barnes and Noble bookstores only
had one Ada95 book on their shelves by Barnes of course) mentioned my old
license plate "(Similarly, Bob Mathis's license plate no longer reads
"ADA-TM".)" About 10 years ago I was also involved with Lisp so I changed my
plates to say "Ada Lisp". When I moved back to Ohio, I changed back to just
randomly assigned regular plates.
>At the time the first edition of "Ada as a Second Language" went to
>press, the Ada Joint Program Office truly believed that the trademark had
>the force of law, and they fully intended to use the trademark to prevent
>the proliferation of divergent dialects all called Ada. They abandoned
>the trademark shortly afterward upon being advised that it was
>unenforceable.
The AJPO had to be assertive about the trademark (as all trademark holders must
be). When the standard was approved, it was no longer necessary to use the
trademark to maintain the definition of the language.
-- Bob (a trademark of Microsoft Corporation) Mathis
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1996-08-25 0:00 Bob Mathis [this message]
1996-08-28 0:00 ` Ada Trademark Norman H. Cohen
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