Edwin “James” Nagle decided to see who actually owned the COMPUTE! magazine trademark. It turns out, nobody did. The name and assets of COMPUTE! were traded and sold and eventually put up as collateral which when the loan failed, reverted to a company that no longer existed.

He stepped in and got the rights from the US patent and trademark office and now officially has revived the Compute! Gazette magazine – complete with type-in programs!

Here’s his excellent talk on the subject.

Oh – and he considered the old print versions of the magazine he now owns the copyrights for as ‘free and open source’.