On Sunday 17 April 2005 10:31, Peter Karlsson wrote: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Jack Carroll wrote: > > SIGMA > > > > Sigma can be reverse-acronymed as Standard Industrial Graphics > > Monitor Adapter. Not too forced, eh? And well in line with the project > > goals. > > I like it. Large sigma is the sum operator and this product is the "sum" > of peoples work (in an open source way). There's also a quality > improvement system called 'six sigma', which at least makes me associate > sigma with quality. On the other hand there's a camera manufacturer called > 'Sigma' (http://www.sigma-photo.co.jp/english/); is it too closely > related?
More importantly, are we going to get in trouble with the various video-related products that Sigma Designs sells? Mostly MPEG, WMV and DivX decoders, but pretty close. And then there seems to be a "ZDS Sigma VGA video controller 030249"... Lourens
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