Re: Re: [Freedos-devel] SCANDISK vs DOSFSCK

[Luchezar G. <lu...@ga...>]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:48:20 +0200, Aitor wrote:

>> If we can live without a true SMARTDRV, we can live without a true 
>> SCANDISK too.
>
> The case is not comparable either. I seem to recall (Alain was it you?) 
> that it was mentioned copyright issues over the label "SMARTDRV", but I 
> don't think there is any over "SCANDISK" (I may be wrong).

If Microsoft have a a trademark called "SmartDrv", then why don't they sue 
IBM who offer it in their PC-DOS 7 and 2000? Or does the code license IBM 
have entitle them to use the trademark? By the way, the name "DOS" is a 
trademark of IBM, if I remember correctly (back in the 1960s).

The functionality of LBACACHE is NOT that of SMARTDRV. Nor is the 
functionality of DOSFSCK that of SCANDISK. It's precisely their 
*functionality*, and not a trademark issue, that is the true reason why 
they're called LBACACHE and DOSFSCK, and not SMARTDRV and SCANDISK, 
respectively.

Lucho