Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Lee Privett wrote:
Hmmn, Dilwyn contact your legal team, Apple in their new op system
LION have a new feature with that same name (out next month)
Now I like Dilwyn's Launchpad
But I also like Apple's Launchpad
So which is better...Fiiiiiiiiiiiigggggghhhhtttttt
He he...I suspect mine would work better on QDOS or SMSQ...theirs
better on the fruitier machines ;-)
Mine's been out so long it's high time I rewrote it and called it
something else anyway (QL-Launchpad???). Might sell a few more then!
Since there is proof of how long I used the name, I guess I can rely
on you to send them a kind email telling them they have 48 hours to
rename or remove every instance of their Launchpad worldwide ;-)
(actually, I'd rather you didn't...)
Seriously though, it's a common name for a program or task launcher
anyway, I know of at least 2 freeware PC programs of that name. If
they really feel concerned about the use of my name on a hundred or
so
1984 machines they are welcome to waste their money sending me a
polite email or letter and I will send them an equally nice email or
letter saying "OK"...
You can guess I don't really care...zzzzzzzz...
BTW, your video upscalar for QL, what is latest on that? You said
you'd sent them a QL to play with, that was the last I heard.
AND, glad to see you are getting committee emails at last! My
moaning
email seems to have done the trick. Now what we need is prompting to
get the website finished so we can all login to the CMS and start
improving it. You chould check a CMS login has been set up for you.
I
assume you know what a Content Management System is, in fact you
most
probably have 10 times (at least) the experience of them I do.
o)
Dilwyn
In hindsight, that was probably an unwise jokey reply, but
light-heartedness apart (silly mood tonight for some reason) you get
the idea of how I feel about this - if Apple were to tell me to stop
using the name I would, as my Launchpad is quite an old product. I'd
simply find a new name. Although somehow I don't think Apple would be
too worried by an old program running on a 1984 computer.
The references to the Quanta website refer of course to the fact that
Lee is the new Editor of Quanta magazine. Sarah Gilpin is editing the
issue currently in preparation and hopefully Lee will be in a position
to take over from the following issue. I hope you'll all agree that
his return to the QL scene and his high level of activity and ideas
will be a real benefit to both Quanta and the QL scene in general.
There, hopefully I've embarrassed him enough for now ;-)
Dilwyn Jones
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