At 4:45 PM -0700 on 10/16/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
>Eric Engle: All but the next to last line is very
>fair, and should CYA.
>
>Alain: What does CYA mean?
"Cover Your A**"
>Someone: We would also need help on how to protect the
>"official distribution". In short, we intend to
>distribute the sources for free and allow everybody to
>create his/her own OpenCard, but under another name.
>This way we want to make sure that there's at least
>one reliable and stable version out there.
We're considering trademark on the name OpenCard (or, rather the final
name--whatever that is), that only we'd be able to use. Anyone could fork
and create a different version, but he'd have to call it something else.
>Alain: Should we find an original name right now, or
>wait until later, given the fact that OpenCard is
>already being used by another software product
>currently on the market?
I think he meant to say "given the fact the the name OpenCard..."
>
>Eric Engle: Is the idea that you have say 50 resources
>that the person links via resEdit? Or 50 odd functions
>to be compiled and linked via, e.g. code warrior?
It'd come linked & ready to go. However, one could get source which would
be thousands of functions linked under MPW, CodeWarrior, or any other
(near-) ISO C++ compiler/linker.
