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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: new name for NeXT
Keywords: NeXT, name, trademark/copyright
Message-ID: <882@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 6 Oct 90 04:03:48 GMT
References: <8857@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <8857@helios.TAMU.EDU> daugher@cs.tamu.edu
	(Dr. Walter C. Daugherity) writes:
>Well, the feedback I'm getting is that NeXT is changing its name to avoid
>legal conflict with somebody else named Next.  One story is that it's a 
>store in San Francisco, which even has each letter a different color!

This sounds like urban legend, except such a store in fact
exists--it's a furniture store on Van Ness just north of Market.
Their "E" is a little different too.  Hmm...

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