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Re: Changing Name Registration in Microsoft Products

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From: Stefan Lindmark
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1989 21:00
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In article <13779@netnews.upenn.edu> rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff) writes:
>Why would anyone care if they spelled their name wrong?  All it does is
>sit on the screen for a second when the program starts up; it doesn't ever
>show up in anything permanent.

Quite annoying, if the name was so garbled, that it looked so *very* much
like the name of another company that one could suspect piracy. 
But I am sure that is not what the discussion is all about? :-)
-- 
Stefan Lindmark, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Email: d88-sli@nada.kth.se        Snail-mail: Don't even bother...
"Wearing your asbestos-suit too often may be fatal to your health"
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From: d88-sli@nada.kth.se (Stefan Lindmark)
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Subject: Re: Changing Name Registration in Microsoft Products
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Date: 20 Aug 89 21:00:07 GMT
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