Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 13:35:39 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <20011006113535.M243-100000@big> In-Reply-To: <003601c14e56$0feb08e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > To me, UNIX is an entire paradigm, a way of doing things > with the computer, a fundamentally different computing > experience from Windows or MacOS or DOS or VMS or > whatever. But as long as the word remains bound up as a > TOG trademark then TOG can make UNIX mean whatever the > hell they want. Yes, I have read about the good ol' UNIX-times. But TOG seems to own this word and we have to accept that. Nowadays we have to use words like "open-source", "free" or "non-commercial" to describe the different paradigm [or ask Fidel Castro if we can have "communist" :-) ] > This is where the real damage of having UNIX tied up as > a TOG trademark is. Read the following quote from TOG's > website: > > "Microsoft=AE Windows NT was developed as a completely > new, state of the art, 32 bit operating > system......Should the functionality meet the > requirements of the UNIX brand then indeed it could > become a registered UNIX system." How much do they want, by the way? I could donate some EUROs . > Now, consider that UNIX is being used as a rallying cry > to mean "It's an OS that's not Microsoft Windows" by > many users. If Microsoft were ever to get UNIX > certification then you've taken the rallying flag away > from the anti-Microsoft community. Being anti-something might be a nice point of selfidentification for teenagers, but it will not carry very far. In twenty years or so Bill Gates will be mentioned as the the father of the third industrial revolution in the history books. FreeBSD is good for students (of all age) and small business because it forces creativity. Microsoft is good for the rest of the world because it forces laziness and uniformity. Uli. ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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