From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Dec 19 0:40:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D01E37B417 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:40:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0155.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.155] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16GcGe-0002Wa-00; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:40:00 -0800 Message-ID: <3C20525F.39AEBFD5@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:39:59 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: "Person, Roderick" , Fergus Cameron , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hotmail _still_ runs FreeBSD! References: <46AEB8C1B628D511969200508B6FE42A668822@1upmc-msx6.isdip.upmc.edu> <3C1FC353.7D81C2CA@mindspring.com> <00f901c18815$596fbb70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C1FF6A6.B7167372@mindspring.com> <013001c18844$50a922e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C2028CE.93B730A8@mindspring.com> <016c01c18853$1c781760$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C203457.1988AC2E@mindspring.com> <018801c18859$297b0700$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Microsoft--the text and the logotype--are separate trademarks. In many > cases, particularly when you see the bug after Microsoft, only Microsoft is > actually trademarked, not the entire text shown. So when I see the same after "Microsoft" and ".NET", and that is true of "Microsoft", then... > > See the GIF. > > There is no identifiable TM or (R) in the GIF. You're wrong. It's a circled "R" symbol. P.S.: Passport is a common law trademark of their single sign-on system, and I would be very surprised if it were not granted on that basis, should they requuest it. Note also that part of the license agreement for the Passport SDL is that you not attempt to register it as a trademark in other countries. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message