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- From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Announcing 386BSD Release 0.1
- Message-ID: <BRTMAC.92Jul29224116@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 03:41:16 GMT
- References: <14cuvtINN568@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul20.135540.12384@uvm.edu>
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- In-reply-to: bill@prijat.cs.uofs.edu's message of 21 Jul 92 17:27:16 GMT
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- In article <10916@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu> bill@prijat.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Jul20.135540.12384@uvm.edu>, wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:
- >|>
- >|> 3. As far as everybody who is not employed by AT&T and its
- >|> licensees is concerned, BSD *is* UNIX, whether it actually contains
- >|> AT&T code or not.
- >|>
- >
- >I believe that AT&T has started a lawsuit against BSDI that is going to
- >put an end to this idea real quick. If it don't say AT&T, it ain't UNIX.
-
- I'm curious how this stands up against the common usage law. When
- does UNIX come up for trademark/copyright renewal? It's my
- understanding that when a word becomes common usage to describe a
- general idea and not a specific product the rights of that trademark
- are lost and anyone can use it to describe their product. I'd say
- that UNIX is pretty much a common usage term used to describe a way
- of doing things more than a specific product from a specific vendor.
-
- ++Brett;
-