[tei-council] Aaargh, someone has stolen our acronym

[Dan O'Donnell]

Have we trademarked ODD? We have spoken nicely to people who've used
TEI.

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 13:22 -0400, David Sewell wrote:
> Trademark dispute time?  That nearly happened when Red Hat gave the name
> "Fedora" to their OS when Cornell and UVa were already using the term
> for their open-source repository.
> 
> There's an (apocryphal?) story that one of the eminences grises of the
> computer industry, when asked a decade or so ago about the greatest
> problem facing the technical world, replied, "There are only 17,576
> possible three-letter acronyms".
> 
> (I'm back from California and beginning to look over tei-council mail
> from this week.)
> 
> David
> 
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Lou Burnard wrote:
> 
> > http://www.opendd.net/resources/ODD_SpecV0.6(draft).pdf
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> 
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
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Chair, Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/

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