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- From: jcaesar@loop.com (jcaesar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AT Surfer Package
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 07:02:17 GMT
- Organization: The Loop
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- On 31-Jan-96 07:17:13, Ross Deeley at rossdee@inhb.co.nz wrote:
- > On 30 Jan 1996, George Noel wrote:
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- >> >As far as I know they have renamed Voyager for Copyright-reasons.
- >> >
- >>
- >> Due to Star Trek: Voyager or the software name Voyager that someone
- >> pointed out was being used by a different company?
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- If anything, they would be trying to avoid any possible law suits (which
- cost money regardless if you win or lose). They could say it was named
- after the explorer we sent up, just as I'm sure Paramount did with their
- ship. In that case, Paramount can't sue. And since Voyager was a product
- of the US Government, I think the name, if anything, is in the public domain.
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