On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Segmentation Violation.  Core dumped. wrote:

> This is really interesting.  How do they figure that the use of SPARC/sparc
> in one context is OK while the use in another context is not?  Either it
> applies to all contexts or to none.

I think I'll start a company called Apple Computers, or maybe Apple
Records, no wait... maybe a roadside fruit-stand called "Apples"...

Intellectual property law is a huge murky subject I won't pretend to
understand.  But I do know that context _does_ count.

You need an identifier and a specifier and all that...

So there's probably something similar going on in the crazed minds of
Sun's lawyers.

- Ari

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