Re: Using names

Subject: Re: Using names
From: Erik Harris <ewh -at- PLAZA -dot- DS -dot- ADP -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 10:57:14 -0800

>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.

At one job I held a while back, we worked on telecom management stuff, and
for sample phone-directory screens and reports in the manuals, we used
names from early New England history. This avoided the problem of creative
infringement without taxing our brains coming up with a lot of fake names.

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"Magni nominis umbra" TrinityPlc -at- aol -dot- com (home)


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