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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 20:38:34 -0500
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.828912460@schonberg> <4kb1l1$ajm@solutions.solon.com> <dewar.828987795@schonberg>
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- In article <dewar.828987795@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >Peter Seebach's claims about trademarks are most peculiar, certainly not
- >even vaguely correct in the US (where you could never manage to trademark
- >Wednesday -- in fact the trademark of Ada was in all likelihood never valid!)
-
- Tell that to the people who did the Addams Family movie. I used to still
- have a piece of packaging from some thing that referred to "Wednesday[tm]",
- and explained that Wednesday was a trade mark of their studio.
-
- Commodore trademarked "3000T". Heh.
-
- Now, trademarks that would *hold up in court*, maybe not; but our society is
- too strange to worry about.
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