'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread ivan
I heard a rumour that Microsoft has had approved an application to license the tla 'www' as a trademark meaning wonderful world of windows but I can't remember the web address. Does anyone know anything about this ? Does this mean that, in effect, MS has control over __EVERY__ website whose

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread John Hasler
Ivan writes: Does this mean that, in effect, MS has control over __EVERY__ website whose url begins 'www' ? No. Not even if the rumor is true. The most it would give them is the right to stop others from using 'www' to sell a product similar to the one they are using it for. A trademark is

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread athos
Ivan wrote: ivna I heard a rumour that Microsoft has had approved an application ivna to license the tla 'www' as a trademark meaning ivna wonderful world of windows but I can't remember the web address. ivna Does anyone know anything about this ? ivna Does this mean that, in effect, MS has

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread Michael Beattie
On 31 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: Ivan writes: Does this mean that, in effect, MS has control over __EVERY__ website whose url begins 'www' ? No. Not even if the rumor is true. The most it would give them is the right to stop others from using 'www' to sell a product similar to the

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread ivan
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:13:26PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: On 31 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: Ivan writes: Does this mean that, in effect, MS has control over __EVERY__ website whose url begins 'www' ? No. Not even if the rumor is true. The most it would give them is the

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: Not even if the rumor is true. ^^^ Ivan writes: Actually I thinks it's now April 1 where John is as well now. Note the qualifier. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, athos wrote: Ivan wrote: ivna I heard a rumour that Microsoft has had approved an application ivna to license the tla 'www' as a trademark meaning ivna wonderful world of windows but I can't remember the web address. ivna Does anyone know anything about this ? ivna

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread John Galt
Happy April fool's On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard a rumour that Microsoft has had approved an application to license the tla 'www' as a trademark meaning wonderful world of windows but I can't remember the web address. Does anyone know anything about this ? Does

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread William R Pentney
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: As an example of how much control over websites the evil empire actually has: http://www.userfriendly.org/ has bit the dust, leading to a new gray ribbon campaign http://perl2000.com/Webmaster/Support/. Unless the whole thing is related to the date