From: jamesd@echeque.com
To: Joel McNamara <cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: jamesd@echeque.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:12:48 +0800
To: Joel McNamara <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Why PGP isn't so ubiquitous (was NRC Session Hiss)
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At 05:43 PM 6/3/96 -0700, Joel McNamara wrote:
> (I'm sure the name "wizards" is trademarked by MS, so they won't be called
> that).
You are free to use the word "wizard" provided that they look, feel,
and work much like what Microsoft calls a "wizard" -- see the
Microsoft UI guidelines.
This demand by Microsoft is pretty reasonable. Now if it had been Apple
or lotus they probably would have declared that you could not write
anything that looked, felt, or worked much like a wizard.
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