Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 21:30:47 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Morag Nunn" <m.nunn@opengroup.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <000201c14e1f$ab91db20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20011005104743.00a097e0@mailhome.rdg.opengroup.org>
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-----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Morag Nunn Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 3:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Use of the UNIX Trademark > Sirs, > You may not be aware that we, X/Open Company Limited (trading as The Open Group) > own the UNIX Trademark and therefore enjoy exclusive rights to its use. Everyone in the FreeBSD community that is experienced with FreeBSD knows this. > It has come to our attention that your website contains references to UNIX, Simple references to UNIX are not impermissible. > such as "FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system..." This statement is likely not permissible as FreeBSD has not paid for licensing to TOG as far as I am aware unless University of California Berkeley's rights to use the term UNIX supersede. (which may be possible) > and "...Free BSD >(is) a very economical alternative to commercial UNIX workstations." This statement is perfectly permissible. In it FreeBSD is not being called UNIX and UNIX is not being called FreeBSD. Many things besides FreeBSD are very economical alternatives to commercial UNIX workstations. This statement is almost a verbatim copy of many that are on the Microsoft website. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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