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Article #911Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:10
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:10
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In article <1992Sep10.015507.27974@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
> The "glee" comes from the appearance of endorsement of an apparent
>"common use" of the term by non-critical mention of it in an official AT&T
>document. Since it was an official document, it state a position by AT&T
>on the matter by it's reference.
I didn't see an endorsement of the common misuse of the term, I saw an
acknowledgement of it. The purpose of a sentence that says, "BSD Unix is
commonly called Berkeley Unix," serves the purpose of clarifying things for
readers who have heard the term "Berkeley Unix". As much as AT&T and USL
try to assert their trademark, they live in the real world and must deal
with the fact that many people use the shorthand "Berkeley Unix".
--
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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