From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 09:52:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04199 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:52:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA04140 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:51:59 GMT (envelope-from atf3r@cs.virginia.edu) Received: from ares.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa06181; 13 Apr 98 12:51 EDT Received: from mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.67.12]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA15853; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:51:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (atf3r@localhost) by mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA28914; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:51:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU: atf3r owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:51:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: FreeBSD commercial support cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: BSD copyrights In-Reply-To: <199804130939.CAA03635@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, David Greenman wrote: > >Somebody suggested that BSD was a copyright of BSDI. > > It is. Their disclaimer is incomplete. > > -DG BSDi didn't exist until well after "BSD UNIX" was in common usage in the technical community and is commonly used today to refer to a generic class of services and OS's. Did BSDi buy "BSD" from UCB? Maybe I'm forgetting something, but isn't this the same situation as nylons/stockings, xerox/photocopy, kleenex/facial tissue, etc.? The term predated BSDi and applies to a genneral class of software. It seems an untenable position to me. I'm not arguing that we have the resources to do anything about it, but it doesn't seem like they can claim ownership either. Which was first out of the gate, 386BSD or BSD/386? Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message