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Re: FW: trademark filings for GCC?

From: Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>
To: Jim Wilson <wilson at tuliptree dot org>
Cc: Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>, Eben Moglen <moglen at columbia dot edu>, rms at gnu dot org, gcc at gnu dot org, carl at oppedahl dot com
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:56:35 -0700
Subject: Re: FW: trademark filings for GCC?

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 04:27 PM, Jim Wilson wrote:

Eben Moglen wrote:
relation to our software.  I have no reason to believe that there are
marks on the basis of which the office would deny our registration,
but we will make our very substantial priority clear.
There is a company called GreenHills Software (http://www.ghs.com), with headquarters in Santa Barbara California, that has a C compiler. They sometimes refer to it as GCC. They refer to our compiler as GNU GCC. They have been around for 20 years, though I don't know when they first released a C compiler

I am sure it was earlier than 1987. 83-84 sounds about right.

, or when they first started refering to it as GCC.

Now that you mention it, I think that gcc (not capitalized, IIRC) was how you invoked it on some systems, at least, in the mid-80s timeframe, although I had forgotten about it. This name doesn't seem to appear on their website now (not that I checked every link).

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- Re: FW: trademark filings for GCC?
  - From: Jim Wilson

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