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- From: boening.pad@sni.de (Martin Boening)
- Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
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- 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
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- In <1992Sep11.123540.19263@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter) writes:
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- >Asprin and Lineoleum were once brand names. But common usage (that's us,
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- 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.
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- So long,
- Martin
- PS: Take two aspirin and don't think about it anymore :-)
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