9 Jun
2015
9 Jun
'15
2:15 p.m.
> DEC was very keen on its OEM business and if the
order was big enough would allow some variation in
> colours but would not allow the dec logo to be removed or changed.
I?m not sure if that?s completely true. I remember a
PDP11 (11/45 probably) at the University of Illinois, around
I am pretty sure I once saw a PDP8/e which was absolutely normal internally, but where the
front panel was
green (as were the switch handles) and it was badged 'Varian'. I don't
remember a Digital logo on the
front anywhere.
Not allowing the logo to be changed would make sense,
since that is one of the rules of trademarks: you risk
losing a trademark if you don?t use it consistently, for example if you create or allow
variations of what was
registered.
IANAL (and it may well be country-dependant) but wouldn't this imply that
badge-engineered devices coudl result
in loss of trademarks.
-tony