From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 17 10:43:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ralf.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDC2237B401 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ralf.artlogix.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 67A4B1B9C52; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:43:34 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of the UNIX Trademark References: <01100820163507.00577@gunnar.weygold.edu> <000501c15083$5f1787c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20011010133330.I82541@wantadilla.lemis.com> From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 17 Oct 2001 10:43:34 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20011010133330.I82541@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <87adyq2md5.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey writes: | Nobody's denying that there was a BSD UNIX. The question is, is FreeBSD BSD | UNIX? The answer is "no". With the removal of the last of the AT&T code | from BSD, it lost the right to be called UNIX. I believe this was also part | of the out-of-court settlement with AT&T. UNIX ["UNIX" is a registered trademark of The Open Group] is mostly dead at this point. But the trademark can still bite you in the rear, thanks to The Open Group ["The Open Group" is a registered trademark of The Open Group]. That's okay, though. Its progeny live on, free and unencumbered. I'm pretty sure we can say: FreeBSD has its historical roots in BSD UNIX 4.4 (UNIX is now a registered trademark of The Open Group), and is. . . . After that point, you refer to it as a BSD operating system, or possibly a Un*x-style operating system ["Un*x" is probably not a registered trademark of The Open Group]. Of course, we can get caught if "BSD" is a trademark. Is it? Whoops. Has anyone checked? I think it's time to stake a claim on "BSD" instead of Yuniqs ["Yuniqs" is most certainly not a trademark of The Open Group], and let out old friend out to pasture. It's earned it, after all that legal battle. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message