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Subject:Re: Using names (was: Who's the author?) From:Bill Burns <WBURNS -at- VAX -dot- MICRON -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 15 Feb 1995 10:34:23 MDT
Seth Greenberg said:
>> However, I would, at all costs avoid the names of
Star Trek characters (even Next Generation). In addition
to creative infringement, it'll just make your company
look like it's peopled by a bunch of technoweenie wireheads.
True, true. But then would you rather be thought of as a technoweenie
wirehead or a serious 'Netcase?
Bill Burns *
Assm. Technical Writer/Editor * "Purgamentum init,
Micron Technology, Inc. * exit purgamentum."
Boise, ID *
WBURNS -at- VAX -dot- MICRON -dot- COM * Henricus Barbatus
