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From: khera@cs.duke.edu (Vivek Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: The USL complaint.
Message-ID: <KHERA.92Aug10131014@thneed.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 92 17:10:14 GMT
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In-reply-to: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk's message of 7 Aug 92 16:59:59 GMT
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In article <7112@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
In article <ZOO.92Aug6173122@cirdan.cygnus.com> zoo@cygnus.com (david d 'zoo' zuhn) writes:
>The difficulty comes in persuading a judge/jury who probably
>aren't terribly computer-literate that Unix* is in common generic
>usage among computer professionals.
This is a red herring. It would be nice if the name "unix" lost its
trademark status, and maybe it will, but the important thing is to
be able to use the system, not the name.
I think if one took the judge out to a local technical bookstore and
looked at all the Unix titles such as "Unix for FORTRAN programmers"
and "XYZ for Unix" books out there, they would be convinced that Unix
is in common use as a noun rather than an adjective. Very few books
on the shelf at our university book store say Unix Operating System or
some such. Anyone else notice this?
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