Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!orstcs!jacobs.cs.orst.edu!kenns From: kenns@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Kenn Stump) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: RE: RE: Once Again, PK VERSUS SEA Keywords: Flames, Lots of 'em, Good ones too! Message-ID: <5258@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 23 Jun 88 05:41:51 GMT Sender: netnews@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: kenns@jacobs.cs.orst.edu (Kenn Stump) Distribution: na Organization: Oregon State University - CS - Corvallis Oregon Lines: 42 In article 16800307@clio Mike Berger Sez: >What's your point? Should it be impossible for Sony to patent the Beta >VCR because other VCR's record video and use tape? If a Ford is iden- >tical to all other cars, why do people spend so much on Ferraris? > >It's always easy to improve on somebody elses' idea. You have to >protect your interests, else you lose the rights to your creation. >Ask Kleenex and Xerox how they feel when people refer to their >competitors' products with names they coined for their own. > > Mike Berger > Department of Statistics > Science, Technology, and Society > University of Illinois > > berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu > {ihnp4 | convex | pur-ee}!uiucuxc!clio!berger Alright.. You got me on the VCR bit, BUT a Ford is NOT identical to all other cars. Therefore Ford cannot sue just any of the other car companies because they have an accellerator and four wheels and comfy seats. That's just about what SEA is doing to PK. Their saying that his program's interior is comfortable, has arm-rests, steering wheel, and that the dashboard has a speed-ometer, just like theirs does. And as to your question about why Ferrari's cost so much more than other cars do, it's obviously because they're more powerful, go faster, are extremely comfortable inside, and look REAL nice. SEA didn't coin the term 'ARC'. It's been around in many forms for a long time. It's like saying that Ford coined the term 'car', and that no other car companies can refer to their specific vehicles as cars. It just doesn't work that way. Ask yourself, just what is the point of SEA's Law-suit against Phil Katz? Is it a personal grudge? If so, then they should take it up with him personally, and let someone else use the court systems. 'nuff said.. Kenn