- From: Eve L. Maler <elm@arbortext.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 17:53:14 -0500
- To: murray@spyglass.com (Murray Altheim)
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 05:10 PM 2/4/97 -0400, Murray Altheim wrote: >If the majority of XML applications are targeted at delivery over the >Internet, then this sounds kinda redundant. Call me a troll, but I still >like Jon's idea of a suite of specs around the "XML-" prefix. At least this >way the public can immediately see the relationships between the parts, and >XML remains the primary focus. ... >Well, part of product marketing is checking out the existing trademarks, >although I've always thought 'do diligence' a silly term. Note that Hyper-X >is already in use, although I wouldn't want to guess who owns the >trademark: > > a) "Hyper-X, Hypertextual Consciousness" by Mark Amerika (!). > b) "Hyper-X for SCO UnixWare 2" -Novell > c) NASA Langley's "Hyper-X High Speed Research Vehicle Production" > d) "Hyper-X -- the department of Alt-X concerned with hypertext/hypermedia" > e) Quarterdeck's [defunct?] "X11 Server Software for the PC" >and many more... Given your reasons and the marketing focus, maybe we should switch around the XML and the hyper, and then call it XML-Hype for short. :-)
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