Bengt Richter wrote: > "Atomic" means trademarked by a company that used to use that name in the 50's > to describe and identify a line toys it put in its breakfast cereal boxes. > The rights are now owned by an IP scavenging company which is trying to sell > them for stock in another IP scavenger with more money left, so be careful. > There's also some related talk of a patent on a method of using semiotic > elements > in association with the distribution of digital generic products to make them > distinguishable for any business purpose whatever. IP principles established > with > corn flakes and decoder rings are thought to translate perfectly to the > digital > domain of FOSS distros including anything toy-like.
And, thus, the origin of an area where I often work with Python: cereal communications... (to tastefully blend the "spelling errors" thread with this one ;-) ) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
