On Thu, 30 May 2002 at 23:23:54, Robert Newson wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
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>Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:
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>> On Thu, 30 May 2002, dndsystems1 wrote:
>>
>>>Just a quick note on this, the version numbers are copyright beyond
>>>2.xx until 8 or 9? according to Rich Mellor. It's a long time since I
>>>looked at this, no doubt he can give us all that info again so Rich
>>>Mellor 'come on down'.
>>>
>> Under the Berne Convention, and therefore international copyright
>>law,
>> numbers cannot be copyrighted.
>
>
>Hence the Pentium and not the [80]586.
Surely
'Porsche 911'
'Boeing 747'
are copyright?
With the same logic surely these are OK:
'Intel 80586'
'SMSQ/E 1.89'
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