At 12:25 -0400 2002/07/22, Boris Veytsman wrote: >> When Knuth dies, I figure that the copyright of TeX will be transferred to >> the estate of the deceased, ... >AFAIK, Knuth transferred his trademark to American Mathematical >Society. Was it not the copyright? Is TeX a trademark? > As far as I know AMS is not going to disband any time soon. So if Knuth isn't the copyright holder but the AMS, what prevents AMS to make a TeX successor also called TeX? -- I am not sure there is much point in that, though. A true successor might benefit from a new name. >Good luck You too. Hans Aberg