Re: LYNX-DEV browser.org

[Les Wallis]

For what it is worth I think I saw a brand of deodorant in the supermarket
the other day called "Lynx Java" !!! 

On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, ELCHONON EDELSON wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Walter Skorski wrote:
> 
> [SNIP!]
> > If someone were so bound and determined to take sole posession of the
> > l-y-n-x sequence of letters, I doubt we could stop them, and I also
> > doubt they'd be satisfied with anything less than expunging it
> > completely.
> 
> If someone were bound and determined to take possesion
> of the l-y-n-x sequence of letters, they would run into one
> simple little problem. That sequence of letters is in the
> PUBLIC DOMAIN! You canNOT copyright something like that,
> because that word 'lynx' is the name a a variety of animal.
> Would you have them going through all the dictionaries
> editing every 'lynx' entry to read "MY Widget, Copyrighted"?
> 
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> >  Computer Administrator, Div. of Medical Genetics <snippety>
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