On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Richard Hally <<a href="mailto:rhally@mindspring.com">rhally@mindspring.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Horst H. von Brand wrote:<br>
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Jesse Keating <<a href="mailto:jkeating@redhat.com" target="_blank">jkeating@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 17:07 +0300, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:<br>
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"Neon," which also happens to be the element 10 in the periodic<br>
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table.<br>
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I LOVE this one.<br>
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Unfortunately it doesn't follow the "is a" algorithm.<br>
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How not? Sulphur and Neon are both chemical elements.<br>
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"Neon" may not get past legal since it is the name of a car model used by the Chrysler Corporation. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Neon" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Neon</a></blockquote>
</div><br>Trademarks are enforced with industry and uniqueness in mind. I would hope that cars and operating systems are unrelated enough markets to not be a problem. Its also not particularly unique, being the name of an element. But then IANAL.<br>