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Article #73286Re: Emacs (was Re: Who owns Sin, Tan, Expand?)
From: Rolf Wilson
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1991 16:48
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1991 16:48
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>In article <FISCHER.91Oct7181857@freja.iesd.auc.dk> fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes: > >>>>> On 4 Oct 91 16:36:38 GMT, nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) said: > Kee> In fact, Macintosh itself is a trademark of another company, licensed > Kee> by Apple. > McIntosh Labs, producer of some really nifty high-end audio gear (tube > amps and the like). > Note that it's even spelled differently, it just *sounds* alike. Bizarre. Apple used to have "licensed from McIntosh Labs" at the bottom of many of their materials. However, they got tired of this after a couple of years, and BOUGHT the name from McIntosh, and licensed it back to them. A tidy profit for McIntosh, I am sure. -- Rolf Wilson Illinois State Geological Survey rolf@sparc1.isgs.uiuc.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,69f1c7a17566d2ac X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-10-12 17:39:20 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!sparc1!rolf From: rolf@sparc1 (Rolf Wilson) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Emacs (was Re: Who owns Sin, Tan, Expand?) Message-ID: <1991Oct10.164844.27071@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 10 Oct 91 16:48:44 GMT References: <QcuTNGK00Vq2I0kNIV@andrew.cmu.edu> <10328@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Oct3.052357.29351@Think.COM> <1991Oct3.063341.9010@cs.yale.edu> <1991Oct3.135103.7693@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <1991Oct4.163638.8732@alphalpha.com> <FISCHER.91Oct7181857@freja.iesd.auc Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 20