Patrick McCullough wrote in a message to Gary Gilmore:
I know this is off-topic, but Larry and I have spoken on a number of 
occaisions, and I have noted a couple of inaccuracies here..
GG> I believe you're talking about MaxTerm.  If Scott had trademarked
 PM>  He keeps referring to it as Maxterm and Maxthis and Maxthat*** 
 PM> depending on what bit he's speaking about.
The protocol is MaxGraphics. MaxTerm/MaxPaint/MaxUpdate etc are programs 
designed to run on it.
 PM>  If you happen upon his website, it turns out "Max" is not even a 
 PM> BBS, just a sort of graphical frontend for the user, not unlike 
 PM> RIP or something.
Well, there's the RIP replacement side of it, then there's the BBS package 
that if it isn't already available, isn't far from being available (I know 
that Larry did a major rewrite of most, if not all his MaxGraphics stuff. 
Maybe he put the BBS on hold?)
 PM>  Wonder if it crashes as much as RIP.   *laugh*
Dunno about the new stuff (with FLI capabilities I believe :-) but the 
earlier stuff runs like a dream. Tidier than RIP, easier to write, faster 
(esp if you use the tokens instead of english). MaxGraphics really is a hell 
of a lot better than RIP, and I've only had a little play with it..
 PM>  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.
 PM>  After giving it more thought, I think you are right.  We Max-ops
 PM> know  what's what.  It's the innocent newbie types who are going to
 PM> get  confused.
Not here. I've seen a few people enquire, and were able to fathom out that 
the two were in fact different things, even if the name sounds the same.
 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
 PM>  There's a good reason to call this something else. 
Perhaps Larry named his software long before he heard of Maximus? Really to 
late to change now tho, the software's been around for ages..
 PM>  I need to turn on the FDN.  Something came down the other day that
 PM> I  wanted... now I gotta go snag it off your webpage.  Man, that's
 PM> too  much work!  
Count yourself lucky, I can't even *get* MaxFDN :-(
Cya..
Dave 
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