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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Tom Wheeley Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada) Date: 1996/04/11 Message-ID: <829194152snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 146968008 x-nntp-posting-host: tsys.demon.co.uk references: <828903918snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <4kb1l1$ajm@solutions.solon.com> <4keoed$bur@mordred.gatech.edu> x-sig-by: Tomsystems Quote v1.2. (c)1996 Tom Wheeley, tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk x-mail2news-path: tsys.demon.co.uk organization: City Zen FM reply-to: tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4keoed$bur@mordred.gatech.edu> james@amber.biology.gatech.edu "James McIninch" writes: > Dan Pop (danpop@mail.cern.ch) wrote: > : In dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > > : >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!)> > : If someone managed to trademark Apple, I see no reason why one couldn't > : trademark Wednesday in the US. > > The only way you could be conceivably guilty of infringing on Apple's trade- > mark (which is 'Apple Computer'), is by using it as the name of a computer > company of some sort. If you started a company called 'Apple Consulting', that > would be okay. If you started a company called 'Apple Computer Consulting', > you'll probably hear from a lawyer. Incidentally, Apple records had the `Apple' trademark first, and Apple Computer were only allowed to use the name, as long as they didn't diverge into sound recording of any sort. Now that Apple make multimedia machines, Apple records could have a case... .splitbung -- * TQ 1.0 * The 'Just So Quotes'. Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. -- Dick Brandon