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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Release Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 21:07:14 GMT Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Message-ID: <9307171607.14@rmkhome.UUCP> References: <JGREELY.93Jul6170732@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu> <9307120123.17@rmkhome.UUCP> <JGREELY.93Jul13172625@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu> Lines: 25 In article <JGREELY.93Jul13172625@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu> jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes: >In article <9307120123.17@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes: >>All the OS packages sold as UNIX (SCO,Dell,ISC,ESIX,SUN,etc) are sold >>by companies who have paid USL the approximately $150000 in license >>fees to get the source and use the name. This also includes OSF, NeXT, >>and other Mach based systems. > >So what does that have to do with the price of sausage? My point is >that the general public (those that use bookstores, anyway) sees books >on a whole bunch of different products (some involving USL licenses, >some not), all filed under the general category of "Unix", with no >trademark symbol in evidence. At least one extremely popular (and >often referenced) "Unix" book carries no external declaration of >trademark status. What are bookstore employees and customers supposed >to think? I have never seen a commercially published Unix/UNIX book that didn't have a declaration of the USL/AT&T trademark on the same page as the publishing copyright. Obviously, USL needs to be more strident about protecting their rights. -- Rick Kelly rmk%rmkhome@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP