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Once I heard a urban legend about a programmer being sued because he was using mickeyMouse as a variable name.

I wouldn't be surprised if many of such cases of non-disclosure are to avoid hungry lawyers for trying to suck some blood out of rich companies. I guess the star trek franchise is owned by Paramount or something like this.




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