From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Dec 19 0:48:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB8037B491 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:48:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBJ8lvR23457; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:47:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <01c501c18869$dbaf31c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Terry Lambert" Cc: "Person, Roderick" , "Fergus Cameron" , 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> <3C20525F.39AEBFD5@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Hotmail _still_ runs FreeBSD! Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:47:52 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Terry writes: > So when I see the same after "Microsoft" and > ".NET", and that is true of "Microsoft", then... You actually don't see either, at least in the images you cited as examples. It is reasonable to assume, based on other sources, that Microsoft actually does have a (R) bug next to it, blurry though it may be; but this assumption is not necessarily valid for .NET, since the bug is not present for this latter term elsewhere. > You're wrong. It's a circled "R" symbol. It's only two pixels wide; it's not anything recognizable at all. > P.S.: Passport is a common law trademark of > their single sign-on system ... That is debatable, and in any case, they do not appear to be asserting it as such. > ... and I would be very surprised if it were > not granted on that basis, should they requuest > it. Irrelevant, since they have not requested 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. That does not mean that Microsoft considers it a trademark of their own. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message