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From: aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)
Subject: Re: "Infocom '93"
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In a previous article, nathan@brokaw.lcs.mit.edu (Nathan Glasser) says:

>>Now in its 12th year, IEEE INFOCOM is the premier international
>>technical conference devoted to computer communications and
>>networking. ....
>
>You'd think that if this IEEE conference was going on for 12 years that one or
>the other of our beloved Infocom and IEEE would have had a conflict...

Actually, it gives me hope that both parties may have been intelligent enough
and adult enough to realise that
a) people aren't so stupid as to confuse every similar name they see.
b) no one really ever has anything to lose by "trademark infringement" in
   these situations.
c) no one ever really gains anything through stupid, interminable trademark
   name disputes.


Marc (who was annoyed at the beatle's cheesy record company when they sued
      a cheesy computer company over the sound/music chip in his computer)
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