Names, names (was: too many enumerated types?)

[Dave Decot]

> In some unknown article, someone writes:
> > Then they showed an example of The New Wave, a four-line error message
> > which took 3 lines to misdiagnose the problem, and reminded you that
> > this was, in fact, an error.  Yup.  Just like VMS...  :-)
> 
>In article <14020060 at hpisod2.HP.COM> decot at hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
>dd> I object to this use of an HP trademark (NewWave) for something unrelated
>dd> to our product and for a situation this disgusting.
> 
> [So, why didn't you reference the article which you quoted?  I believe
> that they are in the "friendly messages" subject.  <435 at laic.UUCP> had
> no mention of The New Wave or NewWave (tm).]

The References: line in the article tells which article string this
refers to, the Subject: line (which you said "was" the former subject
in your article's Subject) tells the Subject of the article string.
I had hoped this would be sufficient context, since most news reading
programs are able to keep discussions together by subject.

> I certainly hope you are saying this with mock sincerity.

Yes, substantially mock.  That is what the smiley face was for at the
end of my article, which you did not quote.

> I would not be at all surprised if the original poster had never even
> heard of "NewWave".

NewWave is an HP trademark for a user interface technology which is/was the
subject of a highly-publicized court battle among Apple, Microsoft, and
HP, which to my knowledge has not been resolved yet.  Open Look is the
name of a similar (not the same) technology provided by AT&T, whose
user-interface products the original "unknown article" was describing.

> Secondly, "The New Wave" is not an infringement on
> "NewWave".  Finally, if the two things are as disparate as you assert,
> then why care at all?  Geesh.

I did not say it was an infringement, nor certainly do I plan to file
suit against anyone.  I said that I objected to the use of a
similar-sounding word in conjunction with an highly obnoxious user
interface.

>       tale at rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts at rpitsgw.rpi.edu, tale at pawl.rpi.edu

Dave