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When I was in college (mid 70s) we wrote a compiler for the 6800 - it fit in 2k, we were very proud .... we copyrighted everything under the name μSoft (everyth
by Taniwha 9y ago
When I was in college (mid 70s) we wrote a compiler for the 6800 - it fit in 2k, we were very proud .... we copyrighted everything under the name μSoft (everything was μ this and μ that back then, in retrospect it was a terribly obvious name).
A year later some upstart showed up on the scene using our name, and he just had a BASIC interpreter, sooo lame! We were college kids in NZ, pre-internet we had no real access to the rest of the world so our project, and our name died .... I so wish we'd incorporated, or at least registered the trademark
- swyx 9y agolegally would you be entitled to royalties if you had registered the trademark? i dont know how long you can squat on a trademark before the obviously bigger entity has proper claim on it...
- Taniwha 9y agoProbably not royalties, but we'd own the name, MS would have to trade under a different name in NZ (just as Burger King has to operate as "Hungry Jack's" in Australia), or come to some sort of accommodation. BTW it's not "squatting" if you've come to the name for a genuine purpose, and as I said it was a pretty obvious name at the time