synaptics was Re: Touchpad don't recognize "double tap"

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:22:51AM -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> > It might be nice if this were named something different -- as it 
> > is, it's confusingly close to "synaptic", the APT GUI....
> Press this point too hard and its not going to end the way you expect.
> You have just step into the legalese of trademarks. If its actually
> confusingly close in a trademark sense, you might not actually like the
> remedy at all.

I don't think it's confusing in that sense. But if you *do* want to go down
that road, the driver probably shouldn't be named simply the name of the
company, but rather a descriptive name of the product.

And your example of emacs and xemacs is silly and you know it.


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