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Subject: [OM] Re: N*k*n
From: "R. Lee Hawkins" <lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 10:55:59 -0400
Cc: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, John Hermanson <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>, "R. Lee Hawkins" <lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In your message dated: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 07:05:03 EDT you write:
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>Don't be daft you two.  For most this has nothing to do with copyright.  This 

Yes, but as I recall this practice started with Unix (Un*x), because
some paranoid person was petrified that AT&T (who owned the Unix
trademark at the time) would hunt them down and sue them for defaming
unix.  To me, it's pretty silly in either case.

Cheers,
--Lee

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