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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unido!adagio!grog From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: "UNIX" is not the registered trademark of AT&T in Japan. Message-ID: <1846@adagio.UUCP> Date: 12 Aug 92 13:27:38 GMT References: <2759@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany Lines: 15 In article <2759@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami) writes: >A little fact that you might be interested in. > >In Japan, the word "UNIX" is not the registered trademark of USL nor AT&T, I don't know the details in Germany, but next time you want to rent a car in Germany, you might find it amusing to rent it from a company called UNIX-Rent-Autovermietung-Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH in Frankfurt am Main (telephone +49-69-619054). No, I don't have any connection with the company - I just found the name amusing. -- Greg Lehey | Tel: +49-6637-1488 LEMIS | Fax: +49-6637-1489 Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany *** NOTE ***: Headers are mangled - reply to grog%lemis@Germany.EU.net