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From: anatoly@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu (Anatoly Ivasyuk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: APPLE 800 LINE (Macintosh TM)
Message-ID: <4148@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 23:10:04 GMT
References: <5460@crash.cts.com> <8551@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <84@braille.uwo.ca>
Organization: Computer Science House @ RIT, Rochester, NY
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In article <84@braille.uwo.ca>, bill@braille.uwo.ca (Bill Carss) writes:
> In article <8551@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
> >
> >In article <5460@crash.cts.com> dale@pro-gateway.cts.com (Dale Therio, Co-SysOp) writes:
> 
[stuff about trademarks and copyrights omitted]

> The reason Apple Records can sue Apple Computer Inc. is that the former own 
> the name Apple.
> 
Actually, Apple Records had a previous agreement with Apple Computer that Apple
Co would not produce music computers.  Apple Records (owned in part by former
Beatle George Harrison, I believe) believes that Apple violated that agreement
when they made the //gs, and that's why they were suing.

> There wasz an article in Open apple (A@ Dentral) a few years ago about this
> very thing.  At that time, they said that every "real" word in the english
> language was owned by someone.  Companies are now putting together nonsense

If memory serves (I don't have the back issues of Open-Apple (tm), now
A2-Central, here with me) but that particular article was in an April issue,
and was meant as an April Fool's joke. :-)

>      I think this topic may bear some further research.

*sarcasm on*
Yes, probably on your end.
*sarcasm off*

> Bill Carss
> bill@braille.uwo.ca  (please note the lower case)


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