From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 17: 9:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C28A14E7F for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:08:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max9-03.gbis.net [207.228.62.67]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01200; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:08:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA01773; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:08:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <016301bf2be1$4f6f6680$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Mike Squires" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: legality issue (fwd) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:01:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I think unix is an AT&T trademark - not sure Open Group? >Our university (Indiana University) now is using Unix as a generic term for >UN*X like operating systems. I asked if a copyright statement was required, >but was told that "Unix" was now in common use. > >If anyone has a different answer, I'd like to know. ;-) Well, the word "Kleenex" is also pretty common, but if you called yourself "Kleenex Technologies", I'd bet you'd find Kimberly-Clark all over your butt :-) There are some trademarks that have become generic enough to lose trademark status ("aspirin" comes to mind), it all depends on how aggressive the trademark holder is in prosecuting infringement cases. Ultimately, it's an issue for the courts to decide, and I wouldn't want to be the test case... --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message