From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: Microdeck
Date:	Tue, 29 Aug 1995 11:30:40 +0200

>I have also seen reference to EBMM, European Business Machines and Magic,
>though I don't remember where.

Though I don't really own any of the European sourcebooks (only the German
Germany Sourcebook and PNAE), I'd say EBMM is a CP2020 corp moved over to
Shadowrun by pasting an M at the end...
Not that I'm 100% sure of this...

>As a question, I was wondering why FASA changed the name of some companies,
>like Microsoft, but left the name of some the same. Is it just creative
>license, or are they trying to avoid trademark infringements?

The latter, I think -- look at "Fuchi." Does that sound like "Fuji" or
doesn't it?

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