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From: stevedc@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Stephen D Carter)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
Message-ID: <1117@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Jun 89 07:19:40 GMT
References: <7367@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
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From article <7367@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, by jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza):
> In article <1309@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu.UUCP (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
>>In article <1989Jun19.175611.1956@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>...
> 
> 	Sorry, Apple has a problem with one particular trademark:  "Apple."
> You remember that company started by the Beatles?  (Did you know that Paul
> McCartney was in a band before Wings?)  They came to an agreement that if
> Apple Computer stayed out of the music business they could use the name "Apple."
> Well, with the inclusion of the sound chip in the IIGS (amoung other things
> like the use of MIDI etc. -- I don't know the exact details but you get the
> point), Apple (the record comany) has opened proceedings against Apple (the
> computer company).
> 
> 	Even if this turns out to be urban folklore, I find the entire concept
> most amusing.  X-)

It is not folklore, Apple (as in Fab Four) are indeed taking action
against
Apple (as in 'we didn't copy it from Xerox), to do with the
precise point mentioned.

(Did Steve Jobs ever do a rooftop concert?)

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