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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 19 Aug 1995 03:04:21 GMT Organization: Spherical Projections Lines: 28 Message-ID: <413kbl$jhs@sundog.tiac.net> References: <40q6mm$c0l@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> <40qem0$482@sundog.tiac.net> <DDGLEp.MoD@info.swan.ac.uk> <DDGsoo.F3D@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4121np$ig8@sundog.tiac.net> <tporczykDDIMyI.HK1@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:794 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4731 comp.os.linux.advocacy:17151 tporczyk@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) wrote: >Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> writes: > >>Technically, once a company loses a case on it's Trademark the trademark >>becomes unenforcable. All someone need do in response is point to the >>precident. > >Perhaps it's time for a court challenge. I can tell you than in the >classroom it becomes obvious that unix has become a common word as all >the students use it without regard to which flavor of "UNIX" they speak >about. They wouldn't know what I was talking about if I started saying >"UN*X-like" (how do pronounce that?) etc. stuff (okay, some would, but >it would be a significant minority). > In point of fact, when I became aware of Unix it was as a type of OS -- this is in the 70s folks. I did not think of UNIX as a brand of OS. It seems to me that AT&T wasn't doing a very good job protecting its' unix Trademark. -- Sphere. Find a Linux/GNU Group for you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/ Buy Free UNIX!