Helgard opened this issue on Dec 01, 2004 ยท 73 posts
pakled posted Thu, 02 December 2004 at 3:47 PM
actually, 'James Bond' was an orinthologist, who published a bird book..Ian Fleming lifted the guy's name right into the book series (the 'real' Bond's wife would occasionally answer the more persistant phone calls as Psy Galore..I kid you not..;)
Now you can use numbers..by themselves..there was a famous case where Intel sued (I think) AMD for making a '486' chip (I'm dating myself here, but I know I'll get lucky at the end of it..;) and the court ruled that you can't copyright a number (which is why the Pentium came into being..;)
I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit
anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)