Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 00:29:53 08/17/00
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On August 17, 2000 at 02:07:46, Martin Grabriel wrote: >I don't think you can reserve a product name when the product is not >materialised yet. But I may be wrong. >Anyway, even "Rebel" has been used by both Ed Schroder and a company which >produces "Rebel Strip Poker" (I am sure Ed didn't produce the latter). >"Shredder" has also been used as a name in a software related to file security. >I have also seen "Fritz" being used as name for some hardware. Use any search >engine and type the popular brand names for chess...many things crop up.. > >On August 17, 2000 at 01:55:28, Jason Williamson wrote: > >>Whats the traditional way of doing this? I have started work on my engine...(if >>you can call learning how to write the basic algorithims work) ... and have a >>name in mind for it. So, when is it ok to basicly say that name is taken? >> >>JW Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to "reserve it" outside the chess world. I mean to let other people know that I would be using the name as a chess engine, and that other people might not then try to name their engine that. JW
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