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From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Letter to Commodore
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.092007.12180@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: 15 Jun 91 09:20:07 GMT
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peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>>Good grief, can anybody come up with a two, three, or four letter acronym
>>that isn't trademarked by somebody, somewhere?  I think it's time for copyright
>>law reform; no more trademarking of abbrevaitions, just of the original titles
>>and trademarks themselves.  Tradmarking three letter abbreviations is just as
>>bad as that guy who tried to copyright every 8x8 bit pattern.

>Good idea. It was really bad when Philips back then forced Commodore to
>drop the name PET (at least here in Europw, I think).

I've always found those PET computers funny, as the "secret" intelligence service in
Denmark is called PET...
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>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
>Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
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                      Jakob Gaardsted, Computer Science Department
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