On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:16:13 pm Chris Radek wrote: > In the spring of 2011, the LinuxCNC Board of Directors was contacted > by a law firm representing EMC Corporation (www.emc.com) about the use > of "EMC" and "EMC2" to identify the software offered on linuxcnc.org. > EMC Corporation has registered various trademarks relating to EMC and > EMC^2 (EMC with superscripted numeral two). > > After a number of conversations with the representative of EMC > Corporation, the final result is that, starting with the next major > release of the software, linuxcnc.org will stop identifying the > software using "emc" or "EMC", or those terms followed by digits. To > the extent that the LinuxCNC Board of Directors controls the names > used to identify the software offered on linuxcnc.org, the board has > agreed to this. >
This could get interesting. I just did a company search for companies named EMC here in Australia. There are 3 named EMC or a variation of that. There are 108 entries containing the word EMC. I;'d love to see results from Europe and Japan et al. Cheers, Geoff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
