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: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: John Weiss Subject: Re: Microsoft Authors [was Re: Why C++ is successful] Date: 1998/08/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 380281816 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: e825983.rtn.boeing.com References: <6qfhri$gs7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35cb8058.645630787@news.ne.mediaone.net> <35D01FCA.236B46F6@gmx.net> <6qpikh$4d5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6qpr43$h2h$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-08-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dennison@telepath.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). ...and after that, McDonalds and Mickeysoft can duke it out in the courts... -- john.r.weiss@boeing*NOSPAM*.com Scientific Computing Development (47deg29'32"N/122deg12'05"W) Boeing Commercial Airplane Group