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Date:      Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:47:52 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To:        "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>, "Fergus Cameron" <cameron@argus-systems.com>, <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Hotmail _still_ runs FreeBSD!
Message-ID:  <01c501c18869$dbaf31c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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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.


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