>...so "what me worry?" (I hope I didn't violate a trademark for MAD magazine<G>)
As a long-time reader of MAD (the only thing that kept me same through graduate school) I can tell you you didn't violate any copyrights. There aren't any. The Alfred E. Neuman character (just his face, not his name) and the "what, me worry?" phrase were used in 1902 by a soft-drink company,and probably were not, in fact, the originators of the whole thing. MAD started using it in the 1950's after it had been bandied around for decades for several other products. The original company sued E.C. comix for trademark infringement, but because of the other products that had used it, the judge ruled that the soft-drink company had not protected its copyright vigorously and had abandoned it. Alfred's face and whatmeworry have been declared to be in the public domain. Interestlingly enough, the "Alfred E. Neuman" name, however, was invented by William M. Gaines, Jr. and is copyrighted by MAD. So you can use the face (as long as you don't use someone else's artwork) and the phrase, just not the name. I'm always amazed at the range of intellectual (?) topics you can find on this list. On-topic or not. "Great Minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Admiral Hyman Rickover Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)856-5940 VM Enterprise Servers, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: Tom Duerbusch > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Missing XRC_supported under VM > > If anxiety is the only problem, I can deal with it. Just hate the > thought of something I overlooked actually being a problem. > > It does make me wonder what XRC support is. But it will be years > before I actually get dasd that would have XRC support in it...so "what > me worry?" (I hope I didn't violate a trademark for MAD magazine<G>) > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/28 12:05 PM >>> > Tom, > > Nope, you'll see that message with z/VM 4.3 also. It doesn't seem to > cause > any problems (other than a little anxiety in the Linux/390 support > folks). > > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Duerbusch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Missing XRC_supported under VM > > > While reading the console messages from booting Linux 8 under z/VM > 4.2, > I noticed a message stating that I was missing VM support. Really? > What kind of support is missing? I take it that it is available in > z/VM > 4.3. > > Just wondering how much of a problem this is and how much concern I > should have. > > > Thanks > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > > dasd(eckd): ECKD discipline initializing > > dasd(eckd): /dev/dasda ( 94: 0),[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 3390/0A(CU:3990/02) > Cyl:3338 > Head:15 > Sec:224 > > dasd(eckd): /dev/dasda ( 94: 0),[EMAIL PROTECTED]: DIAG210 returned VRDCRCCL = > 04, VRDCC > RTY = 82, VRDCCRFT = 82 > > dasd(eckd): /dev/dasda ( 94: 0),[EMAIL PROTECTED]: XRC_supported reset because > of missin > g VM support > > dasd(eckd): /dev/dasda ( 94: 0),[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 3390/0A(CU:3990/02): > Configuration da > ta read > > debug: dasda: new level 3 > >
