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  • Not-Polyoptics :)

    From Divarin@VERT/MUTINY to All on Saturday, January 09, 2021 12:25:18
    So today I was playing around with my TI-99/4A and I came across a wav file for a game I used to play back when I was a kid called Cars and Carcuses. When it starts up it says:

    'Cars & Carcuses'
    A game by not-polyoptics, a division of Synchronet

    I'm wondering if that's the same syncrhonet as synchronet bbs.
    Anyone know any history on this?

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Divarin on Saturday, January 09, 2021 13:37:09
    Re: Not-Polyoptics :)
    By: Divarin to All on Sat Jan 09 2021 12:25 pm

    So today I was playing around with my TI-99/4A and I came across a wav file for a game I used to play back when I was a kid called Cars and Carcuses. When it starts up it says:

    'Cars & Carcuses'
    A game by not-polyoptics, a division of Synchronet

    I'm wondering if that's the same syncrhonet as synchronet bbs.
    Anyone know any history on this?

    Nope, just a coincidence. There are (and have been) a lot of different products and services/companies that have used the name "Synchronet" over the past 30 years.

    The only challenge/complaint I got was not about the name Synchronet, but rather from another company named "Digital Dynamics":
    http://wiki.synchro.net/_media/museum:letters:trademark_threat.png
    By that time (late '95), I wasn't doing a whole lot of 'business' under that name, so I just ignored them.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Saturday, January 09, 2021 16:31:31
    Re: Not-Polyoptics :)
    By: Digital Man to Divarin on Sat Jan 09 2021 01:37 pm

    The only challenge/complaint I got was not about the name Synchronet, but rather from another company named "Digital Dynamics": http://wiki.synchro.net/_media/museum:letters:trademark_threat.png
    By that time (late '95), I wasn't doing a whole lot of 'business' under that name, so I just ignored them.


    "As you know, Digital Dynamics, inc makes sells, markets...etc etc"

    "... has achived world-wide recognition of its mark"

    never heard of them.

    but if they registered the mark and are in the same field you can't do it.
    that was a nasty letter though. he could have worded it in a more friendly manner.

    My company has some products that share a name but are i different fields so they are allowed to do as such.

    last year i had some trademark lawyer up my ass nice and deep just because of shit that was coming up on google. somehow google found an old website i used wget on and i left it there as the page that would come up if you didnt know the hostname but used the IP address.

    the page did nothing and i put it there as a placeholder to get rid of snoopy people.

    but damn, he was on me like flies on shit. i wasnt scared but he could have been nicer about it.
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