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From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
Message-ID: <nld48oc@sgi.sgi.com>
Sender: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:14:09 GMT
erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
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| sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
| : One of the complaints was about the 1-800-ITS-UNIX (I didn't know ITS was
| : unix compatible... hmm), which is no longer a valid phone number, seeming,
| : to me at least, that that part of the complaint is either resolved or no
| : longer relevant.
|
| Huh? You mean that Pande Inc. (which has the number 1-800-SOS-UNIX), as well
| as anyone else that has UNIX in their phone number, has to change it?
| That's utter nonsense...
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No, I think the issue was more that BSDI was claiming "ITS-UNIX" ("it's Unix")
when it wasn't. ("Unix" *is* a trademark of AT&T.)
-Rob
p.s. Just what *are* we going to call these things that are "similar
to but not derived from 'Unix' (trademark of AT&T and/or USL)", anyway?
Just "BSD", maybe?
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Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510 rpw3@sgi.com
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (415)390-1673
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043