From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 4 14:50:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kearneys.ca (cr1003527-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.36.145]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 094403FA6 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:50:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5841 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Feb 2000 22:45:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:45:14 -0800 From: Brent Kearney To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: BSD = Unix ??? Message-ID: <20000204144514.A5756@kearneys.ca> References: <20000201193639.A6007@freebsd-uk.eu.org> <04a501bf6ced$14f961c0$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <04a501bf6ced$14f961c0$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx>; from ales@megared.net.mx on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 01:46:50PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 01:46:50PM -0600, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: > Hi, > > Unix its a trademark, and the owner righ now I think its Santa Cruz > Operation, and all the systems that wants to be called unix, have to pay for > the use of the name. > > Greetings... > Ales > I read in a History of UNIX doc somewhere (there are MANY of those), that Novell purchased the UNIX trademark from USL in 1993, and later gave the rights to the trademark to the X/Open initiative. Just for kicks, I checked the X/Open website (www.opengroup.org), and sure enough: "X/Open is also responsible for the management of the UNIX trade mark on behalf of the industry. X/Open is a registered trade mark, and the "X" device is a trade mark of X/Open Company, Ltd. UNIX is a registered trade mark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company, Ltd." -Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message