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From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: name "emacs" owned by anyone?
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Does anybody "own" the name emacs? What legal claims are there on the 
name? Could a commercial vendor release a product named "emacs"?

Joel Spolsky
spolsky@cs.yale.edu                                        Talk Hard.