[Gllug] UNIX

[Gordon Joly]

At 0:57 +0100 2001-09-09, Nix wrote:
>On Thu, 06 Sep 2001, Bruce Richardson said:
>>
>>  On 9/6/01, 10:49:11 AM, David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
>>  wrote regarding Re: [Gllug] HP Compaq?:
>>
>>>  People these days use 'Unix' to mean a Unix-like OS.
>>
>>  Which they do in a very understandable yet legally liable way.
>
>No, they don't. The trademark is `UNIX'; `Unix' is not a trademark (as
>far as I can remember).
>
>As the Jargon File says, dmr would prefer we called it Unix...


UNIX is a trademark (once owned by USL and then X/Open)
First created as a trademark by AT&T.

http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/call-it-a-duck.html
http://www.levien.com/free/unixtm.html
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~icss352/document/vmac-vsim/unix-cpyrt.html

Gordo

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