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- From: terry@thisbe.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
- Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:06:23 GMT
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- In article <18mebnINNa5a@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep10.015507.27974@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- >> The "glee" comes from the appearance of endorsement of an apparent
- >>"common use" of the term by non-critical mention of it in an official AT&T
- >>document. Since it was an official document, it state a position by AT&T
- >>on the matter by it's reference.
- >
- >I didn't see an endorsement of the common misuse of the term, I saw an
- >acknowledgement of it. The purpose of a sentence that says, "BSD Unix is
- >commonly called Berkeley Unix," serves the purpose of clarifying things for
- >readers who have heard the term "Berkeley Unix". As much as AT&T and USL
- >try to assert their trademark, they live in the real world and must deal
- >with the fact that many people use the shorthand "Berkeley Unix".
-
- Your quote says it all: "BSD Unix is commonly called Berkeley Unix". If
- it isn't an endorsement of the term "Berkeley Unix", it *is* one of
- "BSD Unix". Either way, it still appears to endorse the idea that "Unix"
- is a noun and "BSD" is an adjective modifier under "proper use", even if
- "Berkeley" isn't.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
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