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Re: Naming of Cygwin/XFree86 components

To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Subject: Re: Naming of Cygwin/XFree86 components
From: "'Christopher Faylor '" <cgf at redhat dot com>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 11:46:38 -0400
References: <7F2B9185F0196F44B59990759B91B1C23C369F@ins-exch.inspirepharm.com>
Reply-To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 07:53:53AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> I agree with Chris, keep using XWIN and do not worry about trademark.
>Startnet does not own it.  Thier product is X-Win32, which is different,
>there is X-WinPro and XWIN is an abrivation of XWIN.  I did a brief search
>long time ago before naming executable xwin.  I am not an attorney but I
>think using name XWIN is safe, as Chris mentioned.

I was almost tempted to suggest cygxwin but the "cyg" prefix is sort of
deprecated these days, so it wouldn't make much sense to go in that
direction.

cgf

References:
- RE: Naming of Cygwin/XFree86 components
  - From: Suhaib Siddiqi

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