wxWindows changes name

[Thomas Heller]

Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> writes:

> The point is that "Windows" isn't a trademark, or at least shouldn't be
> because it's too generic. "MS Windows" or "Microsoft Windows", OK.
> The same was the case with DOS: many people called MS-DOS just "DOS",
> although there were other DOSses around.
>
> I think they shouldn't be allowed to hijack the name "Windows". And neither
> "Word" or "Office" for that matter.

MS isn't alone in doeing this.  Here in germany, we have the case that
the 'Telekom' is trying to hijack both the letter 'T' and the color
magenta.

Strange times...

Thomas