Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pilchuck!dataio!suvax1!hirayama
From: hirayama@suvax1.UUCP (Pat Hirayama)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: copyright notices
Message-ID: <1034@suvax1.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 03:37:46 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA.
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OK, world, here's my two-bits worth (inflation and the devalued $US):

Enough of this.  (C) is perfectly acceptable for a copyright notice!
I'm sure that all of you out there have seen the following notice in
one form or the other:

The IBM Personal Computer DOS
Version 3.10 (C)Copyright International Business Machines Corp 1981, 1985
	     (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981, 1985

Microsoft MS-DOS Version 3.10
(c) Copyright Microsoft Corp. and Seiko Epson Corp. 1981, 1985

		     	      Copyright (C) 1985
			Lotus Development Corporation
			     All Rights Reserved

				   PROCOMM(tm)
				  Version 2.4.2
(C) 1985, 1986 Datastorm Technologies, Inc.  (Formerly PIL Software Systems) 


Now, the symbol has also been omitted:


			Lotus Development Corporation
				Copyright 1985
			     All Rights Reserved
				  Release 2


The IBM Personal Computer Basic
Version A3.10 Copyright IBM Corp. 1981, 1985
60882 Bytes free



See, all acceptable.  Let's face it, Lotus, Microsoft, IBM and even DataStorm
are not about to let their products go out without all the necessary copyrights
(at least, if they did, they should hire a new legal department. :))


Enough said.

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