[PLUG] PLUG vs. PLUG

[Dan Haskell]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Russell Evans wrote:

> It's hard to argue that we didn't drop the name when it says we did on
> our web page. Even if some of us didn't drop the name, the organization
> did. 

Except it doesn't say we *dropped* the name. In fact, PLUG's officers
(official cat herders?) never abandoned the old name.  I have used it in
almost every Clinic announcement - which are official PLUG documents - and
Dave Mandel has a DBA on it with the State of Oregon. Further we have a
ten year history of use which gives us a *legal* right to that name.

There seems to be a misunderstanding here that the changing of an
organization or company's name automatically puts the old name to be the
public domain. This is not the case. IBM bought Sequent and and re-branded
all their products - which does not mean you're free to start a computer
company called Sequent.

BTW, I want to thank you for your postings here. PDXLUG has banned several
of us from posting to their list and, in my case, from even mailing them
privately. Answering your questions gives us an opportunity to make our
case public.

Dan