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- From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi
- Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
- Message-ID: <1859@adagio.UUCP>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 08:53:34 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.220141.17026@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Sep4.234429.18294@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <Bu5DBu.IA6@rahul.net>
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- In article <Bu5DBu.IA6@rahul.net> dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
- >The terms "BSD UNIX" and "Berkeley UNIX" have come into common use.
- >Note that "UNIX" is a noun and "BSD" or "Berkeley" is a qualifier. A
- >trade mark, under US law, cannot be a noun. As soon as it becomes a
- >noun in common usage, its trade mark status is in jeopardy.
-
- Well, yes. However, I see a much simpler answer to the problem. Leave
- the name UNIX AT&T, USL or whatever they call themselves this week,
- and refer to the operating system family as Unix. Trademarks are
- case-sensitive.
-
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