> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:26:40 +0200 > From: Hans Aberg <[log in to unmask]> > > When Knuth dies, I figure that the copyright of TeX will be transferred to > the estate of the deceased, and it will be up to the maintainers of this > estate to decide what will happen with TeX: They may decide to respect the > wishes epxressed by Knuth, or to do something else, like making TeX into a > commercial product. Those that do not like what happens with TeX at that > time may decide to challenge it in court. AFAIK, Knuth transferred his trademark to American Mathematical Society. As far as I know AMS is not going to disband any time soon. -- Good luck -Boris "Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich." -- Looney Tunes, Ali Baba Bunny (1957, Chuck Jones)