On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, athos wrote: > Ivan wrote: > ivna> I heard a rumour that Microsoft has had approved an application > ivna> to license the tla 'www' as a trademark meaning > ivna> "wonderful world of windows" but I can't remember the web address. > > ivna> Does anyone know anything about this ? > > ivna> Does this mean that, in effect, MS has control over __EVERY__ website > ivna> whose url begins 'www' ? > > I wonder if the rumour has anything to do with today's date...
As an example of how much control over websites the evil empire actually has: http://www.userfriendly.org/ has bit the dust, leading to a new "gray ribbon" campaign <http://perl2000.com/Webmaster/Support/>. Unless the whole thing is related to the date (I'll have to check back tomorrow). Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
