Re: ® (was: Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by joey: webwml/english/News/weekly/2002/45 index.wml)
On Monday 25 November 2002 14:40, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> E.L. Willighagen:
> > I agree that the use of ® is non-marketspeak is annoying... but IMHO
> > the website is a bit more than that... it may be considered
> > advertizement, or at least official documentation...
>
> If it was any of the documentation or "marketing" pages, I would agree,
> but DWN is a newsletter, and as such I don't agree that ® signs should
> be added. And since we normally do not write ®s, adding one would set a
> bad precendent considering the number of trademarked names mentioned in
> DWN.
Agreed... I missed the fact that the page was a DWN page... I would indeed not
consider DWN as being non-marketspeak (tm*)...
Egon
* "non-marketspeak" was trademarked by Peter Karlsson.
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