* On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:22:20AM +0100, jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> > I've noticed other manufacturers using names in addition to numbers in the
> > US market. Why they can't just use the model number I'll never know. And
> > yes, Evolt is ugly. But then not a lot more than C*n*n's Digital Rebel.
> > Hum... silliness.
>
> As intel said you can't protect a number e.g. 486 and stop someone else
> using it but you can protect a name like pentium....
> James
Ah, very good point ... I'd forgotten about that. :s
But then again, they were going for fully compatible IC designs, whereas
here we have different systems from different manufacturers, with
undeniably different aesthetics .. So by just having an Olympus E-500 and
such, the likely hood of clones and confusion isn't going to happen ...
It could be that they just want people to talk about the name, and guess
what? We're doing that now ...
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