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Xref: sserve gnu.misc.discuss:6183 comp.org.eff.talk:9007 comp.unix.bsd:4868 comp.os.mach:2105 misc.int-property:491 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!constellation!unmvax!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!agate!cogsci.Berkeley.EDU!ag From: ag@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Gabryelski) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,misc.int-property,alt.suit.att-bsdi Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark? Date: 10 Sep 1992 16:14:19 GMT Organization: Institute of Cognitive Studies, U.C. Berkeley Lines: 38 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <18ns8rINNd81@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <KANDALL.92Sep9170758@globalize.nsg.sgi.com> <farrow.716074432@fido.Colorado.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: cogsci.berkeley.edu Jeeze, what a newsgroups line. Follow ups would have been set to me but this silly news code is confused. In article <farrow.@fido.Colorado.EDU> farrow@fido.Colorado.EDU writes: >>In article <KANDALL.92Sep9170758@sgi.com> (Michael Kandall) writes: >>The term "UNIX" has not fallen into common use in the sense than it refers >>to any "UNIX-like" product. > >The hell it hasn't! AT&T/USL are several years too late. I was using >UN*X for over a year before I even heard of AT&T System V. At CU >Boulder, we don't even have any SysV machines that I know of, yet we >refer to all of our UN*X boxes as "UNIX". [...] > >Any other opinions? I noticed that in the paragraph above you used `UN*X' instead of `UNIX' to refer to OSs that were not UNIX but did have some capabilities of UNIX. Is this because you are competely aware of the difference? I would say `USL' is not *too* late. Pax, Keith Ps: When I four years old I used the words `Kleenex' and `Band-Aid' to refer to generic products of their respected kind. Neither company paid much attention to my obviously wrong use of their trademarked brand names. Both companies still have trademark rights to the names (albeit possibly on shakey ground). I doubt USL needs to pay attention to singular illerates. By the way: I don't speak for anyone but myself.