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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] OpenIndiana - a new OpenSolaris Distribution!
From:       David Brodbeck <brodbd () u ! washington ! edu>
Date:       2010-09-10 16:27:25
Message-ID: 418021D8-7DB9-43CF-99F5-88BC5689EE9E () u ! washington ! edu
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On Sep 10, 2010, at 4:44 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:

> > Copyright a state?
> > 
> > So anyone starting "Indiana Software, LLC" would be
> > in conflict with Sun because of a codename on a
> > project?
> > 
> > I guess people have sued for dumber things to try and
> > get money.
> 
> I think that Intel and Zilog both trademarked letters
> of the alphabet (i and z, respectively); or at any rate,
> tried to.

I don't know about that, but IBM once successfully defended a trademark on "/2", as \
in "PS/2".  A company was selling a PS/2-protocol mouse called the "Mouse/2".

-- 

David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington




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