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- From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- Message-ID: <nld48oc@sgi.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:14:09 GMT
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- erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
- +---------------
- | sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
- | : One of the complaints was about the 1-800-ITS-UNIX (I didn't know ITS was
- | : unix compatible... hmm), which is no longer a valid phone number, seeming,
- | : to me at least, that that part of the complaint is either resolved or no
- | : longer relevant.
- |
- | Huh? You mean that Pande Inc. (which has the number 1-800-SOS-UNIX), as well
- | as anyone else that has UNIX in their phone number, has to change it?
- | That's utter nonsense...
- +---------------
-
- No, I think the issue was more that BSDI was claiming "ITS-UNIX" ("it's Unix")
- when it wasn't. ("Unix" *is* a trademark of AT&T.)
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-
- -Rob
-
- p.s. Just what *are* we going to call these things that are "similar
- to but not derived from 'Unix' (trademark of AT&T and/or USL)", anyway?
- Just "BSD", maybe?
-
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