This has been amusing as I've had a sense of deja vu as I was writing my notes. Yes yes, I have been here before. In 1997 on the CYBERIA-L mailing list where we discussed exactly this same topic http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/cyberia-l/frm13569.html where we find a post from Chris Morris begining a thread with a post that includes "I think L-soft is waging the battle against genericide too late." And the late Peter Junger begins another thread with many of the same assertions that we've made here http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/cyberia-l/frm13537.html But I believe that Carol Shepherd had what I recall was the best explaination: http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/cyberia-l/frm13609.html Now if anyone can find out if L-Soft has ever been challenged... ========================================================================== Paul Jones "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." Alasdair Gray http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/ pjones@ibiblio.org voice: (919) 962-7600 fax: (919) 962-8071 ===========================================================================