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Article #957Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
From: Martin Boening
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:12
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:12
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In <1992Sep11.123540.19263@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter) writes:
>Asprin and Lineoleum were once brand names. But common usage (that's us,
That's Aspirin. We've had this confusion once before, when the group
alt.fan.asprin was mistaken for a group concerning itself with the drug
called Aspirin rather than with the author Robert Lynn Asprin.
So long,
Martin
PS: Take two aspirin and don't think about it anymore :-)
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Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,misc.int-property,alt.suit.att-bsdi Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!nixpbe!news.sni.de!offbeat!mboen From: boening.pad@sni.de (Martin Boening) Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark? Message-ID: <mboen.716548347@offbeat> Sender: news@nixpbe.sni.de Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany References: <farrow.716074432@fido.Colorado.EDU> <18ns8rINNd81@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep11.084516.16908@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1992Sep11.123540.19263@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:12:27 GMT Lines: 16