Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!cygnus.com!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: What is "BSD"? Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Message-ID: <DDo9z9.JFC@kithrup.com> References: <CGD.95Aug20032937@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU> <4199pv$skk@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> <41adgc$b0m@bsdi.BSDI.COM> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 17:59:33 GMT Lines: 14 In article <41adgc$b0m@bsdi.BSDI.COM>, Rob Kolstad <kolstad@BSDI.COM> wrote: >Because otherwise any random person could create a product, e.g., You mean like the random company you work for? What makes you think BSDi is so automatically entitled to be the only ones who can have "BSD"? >We let people (like FreeBSD) use the trademark for free and have >a simple legal document that effectively says, ``We understand >FreeBSD is FreeBSD and BSDI's BSD is BSDI's BSD''. Trademarks are adjectives only, not nouns. It's nice to see that one of the principals in the holder of the "trademark" recognizes that it is not a valid adjective, and uses it as a noun.