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From: smithson@calma.UUCP (Brian Smithson)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: VC
Message-ID: <597@calma.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 12:41:00 EST
Article-I.D.: calma.597
Posted: Mon Jan 12 12:41:00 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 01:20:42 EST
References: <455@sii.UUCP>
Reply-To: smithson@calma.UUCP (Brian Smithson)
Organization: GE/Calma Co., R&D Systems Engineering, Milpitas, CA
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In article <455@sii.UUCP> drd@sii.UUCP (David Dick) writes:
>[...]
>'vc' is a registered trademark of Software Innovations, Inc. for
>our UNIX(R) spreadsheet.  We've been selling our spreadsheet
>under that name for 5 years now.  The software has no
>relationship to what was originally posted to USENET or to
>any other public domain software.
>[...] When Jim
>Gosling first released the spreadsheet software, it was
>named "sc", for spreadsheet calculator.  I think a good name
>for this new incarnation would be "sc2" (or"sc3" if you want
>to count Mark Weiser's version).
>

I'd recommend against sc2 or sc3, not necessarily because of
trademark violations (but perhaps...), but because of confusion
with SuperCalc 2 and Supercalc 3, normally abbreviated as sc2 and sc3.