Re: [MiNT] ERIC SMITH, PLEASE!!! ;-) uname reply - a final proposition

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> 
> > PS:  Atari Corp. is gone, so is the copyright on MiNT still an issue?
> >      Can't we just finally use the more generic "MiNT" instead of
> >      "Fresh/Free/Friggin/FryingMiNT" to identify our OS??
> 
> According to Eric Smith, it IS still an issue. (When he reminded us about
> that on this list, Atari Corp was in exactly the same situation as it is
> now). 

When was the last time _HE_ checked with Atari?

Hell, even JTS Corp is now gone, so who's gonna complain?

Either ways, Atari _licensed_ MiNT _from_ Eric, not the other way around.

Of course, if Eric refuses to see his product name associated with someone
else's coding efforts, that's entirely different issue....

Personnaly, I agree with whoever said that Linux is not gonna be called
FreeLinux or LinuxOS just because some people created variants of it.

The current kernel is backwards-compatible and the OS generally known
to the Atari community as MiNT.  Why not stick with that name?  IMHO,
calling it FreeMINT just adds to the confusion and sounds silly.


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