On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:27:41 -0600 EBo <e...@sandien.com> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:20:01 -0500, Kent A. Reed wrote: > > On 1/18/2012 6:42 AM, EBo wrote: > >> Ick... Oh well, it looks like Fred Proctor published the first > >> paper > >> in 1993, and emc.com incorporated in 1994... At least they were > >> nice > >> about it so it sounds like. To bad we could not skip 2 and move > >> on to 3 > >> ;-) Actually them copyrighting/trademarking what is in essence > >> Einstein's equation is a little odd, but Oh well. > >> > >> Thanks for the elucidation and the documentation. The link to the > >> announcement might be a good addendum to the FAQ. > >> > >> EBo -- > >> > > If only it were so simple. The trouble is, EMC was formed as a > > company in 1979, its name is derived from the initials of its > > founding > > fathers, it has 47 000 employees with offices in 100 countries, and > > it > > has a huge presence in computing technology. > > > > Pierre Trudeau, former PM of Canada, once said of the USA "Living > > next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No > > matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call > > it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." > > > > We're in a similar situation. > > > > As for NIST's role, it's unfortunate that Enhanced Machine > > Controller was chosen as the name of the system and that EMC is a > > natural shorthand for it. That's history and I think we should > > celebrate it, but I don't see anything is to be gained holding our > > breath until we turn blue. > > > > I still think our documentation including our online presence such > > as the wiki and websites needs to be quite explicit about what was > > past and what the agreement means going forward. > > > > Regards, > > Kent > > The size of the company was not clear from emc.com's web page or > "about" page. Interesting. Anyway, it needed disambugation > regardless. I love the Trudeau quote BTW ;-) > > EBo -- > I'm continually amazed by the amount of greed I (refering to society in general) see as well as paranoia induced by the legal profession (?). Ugh.
Somehow I don't see how EMC2 is stepping on any toes. Morphing the acronym to MMC (opps! same problem) or even 2MMC ... maybe less of a problem. MMC = millennium machine controller 2MMC = 2nd millennium machine controller". Someone far more creative than me is going to have to play with this. Dave > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft > developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus > HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when > you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
