Gary Gilmore wrote in a message to Patrick Mccullough:
 PM>  Appears someone has come up with a BBS program he's calling "Max."
 PM>  Check out the conversation in BBS_Carnival.
GG> I believe you're talking about MaxTerm.  If Scott had trademarked
 He keeps referring to it as Maxterm and Maxthis and Maxthat***
 depending on what bit he's speaking about.
 If you happen upon his website, it turns out "Max" is not even a
 BBS, just a sort of graphical frontend for the user, not unlike
 RIP or something.
 Wonder if it crashes as much as RIP.   *laugh*
GG> "Max", he would be able to stop the infringement, but since it's
GG> "Maximus" that's trademarked, there's not much to say about it.
GG> (If you search the internet, you'll also notice there's a company
GG> called "Maximus Computers" too, so...)
 I keep thinking of an old Transformers toy called 'Fortress Maximus.'
 IIRC, it was a big city which turned into a strange city-sized robot.
 Well, Maximus the BBS certainly has that much flexibility!
 PM>  Is anyone else concerned about the confusion this is going to cause?
 GG> Not here.
 After giving it more thought, I think you are right.  We Max-ops know
 what's what.  It's the innocent newbie types who are going to get
 confused.
 PM>  IMO, "MAX" is a bad choice for naming this thing.
 GG> Probably.  Since I hatch Maximus utils with a replace in the MaxFDN,
 GG> any names duplicated by the MaxTerm author will just get stomped on
 There's a good reason to call this something else. 
 GG> anyways. (Which is a good reason to keep your MaxFDN incoming
 GG> separate from your general "BBS Doors" type areas.)
 I need to turn on the FDN.  Something came down the other day that I
 wanted... now I gotta go snag it off your webpage.  Man, that's too
 much work!  
 Patrick
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