Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!husc6!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!calma!smithson 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 Lines: 17 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.