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- From: dlu@wobble.uucp (Doug Urner)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.155655.1596@wobble.uucp>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 15:56:55 GMT
- Article-I.D.: wobble.1992Jul22.155655.1596
- References: <83873@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Jul20.211451.3051@algor2.algorists.com> <MIB.92Jul21111729@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- Organization: dlu UNIX Consultants
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- mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
-
- >It's worth noting that one of the grounds of the suit is that BSDI's
- >phone numebr was advertised originally as 1-800-ITS-UNIX. That's
- >pretty clearly trademark infringment.
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- Assuming that the "U-word" hasn't gone the way of klenex and other
- trademarks that have become plain old everyday words. BSDI is not the
- first to use a phone number "expressable by the letters UNIX" nor,
- according to my online phonebook, are they the last.
-
- Perhaps we should be thinking of a new name for GNU?
-
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