From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Microsoft Authors [was Re: Why C++ is successful] Date: 1998/08/11 Message-ID: <6qpr43$h2h$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 380080123 References: <6qfhri$gs7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35cb8058.645630787@news.ne.mediaone.net> <35D01FCA.236B46F6@gmx.net> <6qpikh$4d5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Aug 11 16:22:27 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; Gateway2000) Date: 1998-08-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <6qpikh$4d5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, john-clonts@hlp.com wrote: > Is it a Microsoft Press requirement that all their authors have a last name > beginning with Mc? McGuire, McConnell, McCarthy No. That notation is short for "Microsoft copyright". All those folks are copyrighted by Microsoft. Anyone else erroniously using "Mc" as part of their name is in violation of international copyright laws and will probably be sued by Microsoft's lawyers (as soon as they are done playing the the US Justice Department). ;-) T.E.D. -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum