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From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Kermit and Disney...
Message-ID: <8077@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 89 12:35:33 GMT
References: <8908282018.aa06527@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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In article <8908282018.aa06527@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> MSER001@ECNCDC.BITNET (Scott Hutinger) writes:
>Kermit, and his friends.  I waited to see if I heard any more about this,
>and have not heard that they were purchased.  I did hear again tonight that
>Disney was going to purchase Kermit, but nothing else.
>
>Does this mean Disney is going to sue everybody that uses the name Kermit?
>I wonder what this will do to the Kermit we all find on our computers?

Last night's network news made comment that Disney was buying Jim Henson Assoc.
for $100M. (Yow!).  I don't know if I like the prospect of Henson's creativity
being diluted by Disney's more conservative outlook, but as far as our favorite
file transfer program goes, a footnote from pg. 3 of Frank da Cruz's 'Kermit:
A File Transfer Protocol':

	'...When BYTE magazine was preparing our 1984 Kermit article for publication,
	they suggested we contact Henson Associates Inc. for permissions to say that
	we did indeed name the protocol after Kermit the Frog.  Permission was
	kindly granted, and now the real story can be told.'

I'll assume Disney can't retract the permission.

						Bob Halloran
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