From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jul 15 13:57:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AAC937B6FC for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:57:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA19186; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 14:57:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000715145330.04d309c0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 14:57:32 -0600 To: The Clark Family From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Pet Theory for World Domination Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It seems to me that it's the trademark, more than the code, that has been the curse. Remember how the AT&T lawsuit started? It was filed after a new startup called BSD, Inc. began to advertise its products together with the phone number 1-800-ITS-UNIX. --Brett At 02:37 PM 7/15/2000, The Clark Family wrote: >That bit-o-code seems to have a curse on it. Has anyone who's owned it >done well? > >(Not that I remember, but then my memory isn't very long or detailed.) > >[RC] > >On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, David Scheidt wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, James Howard wrote: >> >> :In message , The >> :Clark Family writes: >> :> >> :> SCO bought UNIXWare from Novell didn't they? >> : >> :Yes. Also, wasn't this purchase made *during* the court proceedings? >> >> I think that was AT&T selling UNIX to Novell. My history is sort of fuzzy, >> though. >> >> David >> >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message >> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message