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- From: david@campfire.stl.mo.US (David J Camp)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: GNU's NOT Unix!!!
- Message-ID: <2a6dddee.campfire@campfire.stl.mo.us>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 22:15:08 GMT
- Sender: mccormic@cis.ohio-state.edu (shawn david mccormick)
- Reply-To: "David J Camp" <campfire!david@wupost.wustl.edu>
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- On 22 Jul 92 15:56:55 GMT, (Doug Urner) wubios!wobble!dlu@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu wrote:
- > 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.
- >
- > 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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- Of course not. GNU's Not Unix! -David-
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- >
- > --
- > Doug Urner, dlu@wobble "They tear down our comrades like leaves from a tree,
- > 1613 Moore Street leaves from a tree, leaves from a tree, but the
- > Bellingham, WA 98226 tree still stands, its roots locked to the land."
- > 206/676-5759 -- Song of the Exile, Barry Guilder
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- # david%campfire@wupost.wustl.edu ^ David J. Camp #
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