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To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@virginia.edu>
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 14:42:01 -0700
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>	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.

   I believe BSD was a trademark of the UCB Regents.

>Did BSDi buy "BSD" from UCB?

   That's my understanding, yes.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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