> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:37:38 +0200 > From: Hans Aberg <[log in to unmask]> > > > Was it not the copyright? Is TeX a trademark? > Yes. TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society. METAFONT is a trademark of Addison Wesley Longman. > > 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? Knuth is the copyright holder. Knuth's express wish prevents AMS to make a non-TeX called TeX. I do not know the legal delicacies, but I think AMS is not going to violate Knuth's wish. -- Good luck -Boris By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. -- Confucius