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From: boening.pad@sni.de (Martin Boening)
Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
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References: <farrow.716074432@fido.Colorado.EDU> <18ns8rINNd81@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep11.084516.16908@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1992Sep11.123540.19263@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:12:27 GMT
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In <1992Sep11.123540.19263@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter) writes:
>Asprin and Lineoleum were once brand names. But common usage (that's us,
That's Aspirin. We've had this confusion once before, when the group
alt.fan.asprin was mistaken for a group concerning itself with the drug
called Aspirin rather than with the author Robert Lynn Asprin.
So long,
Martin
PS: Take two aspirin and don't think about it anymore :-)
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