[6651] in Kerberos
Re: Resnet Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Kamens)
Thu Feb 15 08:10:38 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 15 Feb 1996 13:00:28 GMT
From: jik@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com (Jonathan Kamens)
First of all, since the English word is transliterated from a foreign
language, the spelling is probably conventional at best anyway.
Second, although my dictionary lists the spelling as "Cerberus", it also
claims that it comes from the Latin, which comes from the Greek, and offers
"Kerberos" as the Greek spelling.
Third, I suspect that names of mythological figures that are already part of
the language cannot be trademarked. Therefore, it's possible that MIT chose
to use "Kerberos" rather than "Cerberus" so that they could trademark the name.
