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Subject: 
new lego web site, microsoft, and trademark stupidity.
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 04:11:24 GMT
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mattdm@mattdmNOSPAM.org
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Hey look. Lego's Fair Play policy says, and I quote:

"Finally, the LEGO trademark should always appear with an ¨ symbol each
  time it is used."

Yes, that's right. "An" [sic] diacritical mark.

As in: I really like Lego¨ bricks.


*sigh*




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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: new lego web site, microsoft, and trademark stupidity.
 
(...) Whoa, wow, yeah, they're using a raw 8-bit value 168 there, rather than the HTML entity "®" (tsk, tsk) Welp, if they had a feedback button or something, it'd be possible to let them know, but... :-/ --Todd (25 years ago, 24-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)
  Re: new lego web site, microsoft, and trademark stupidity.
 
You don't understand: It's the symbol formerly known as registered trademark. KL (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)

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