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Article #73384Re: Emacs (was Re: Who owns Sin, Tan, Expand?)
From: umh
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1991 17:51
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1991 17:51
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> <Compare this with Apple, > <which I've heard has a blanket trademark on all software names beginning > <with "Mac". > > Is this true? It seems most unfair. May a Scottish hacker not come out with > "MacDougal's Sup-R-Write 1.0 for the IBM PC"? Or "Machine Language Tutorial"? > I do know that there is some company that owns the "trademark" or whatever you wish to call it, of "Classic" and that Apple paid them a sizable sum- of the order of millions of $$$, to use said word for the Mac Classic. (Info is vague recollection of an article in MacWeek about 9 months ago.) Maynard Handley
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,69f1c7a17566d2ac X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-10-04 08:02:17 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!cornell!vax5.cit.cornell.edu!umh From: umh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Emacs (was Re: Who owns Sin, Tan, Expand?) Message-ID: <1991Oct3.135103.7693@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Date: 3 Oct 91 17:51:03 GMT References: <QcuTNGK00Vq2I0kNIV@andrew.cmu.edu> <10328@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Oct3.052357.29351@Think.COM> <1991Oct3.063341.9010@cs.yale.edu> Organization: CIT, Cornell University Lines: 13