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From:jcompton
Date:31 May 2000 at 21:22:32
Subject:Re: Trademarks and branding

> Why are people seeing it as so ridiculous? Would Sony let people get away
> with selling unnoficial products with Sony branding? The answer is of
> course, no (Sony recently went to the lengths of barring all unofficial UK
> PS magazines from using the name "Playstation", hence there are now around
> 300 different magazines called Station Power). Why should Amiga behave
> differently?

The obvious answer is "Because Amiga Inc. is not Sony, and they try so
hard to project a folksy, gee-whiz attitude, then start making sinister
trademark protection announcements, so it's perfectly reasonable to be
more than a little put off."



Jason Compton jcompton@xnet.com

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