From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 16 9:41:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17F9B37B401; Thu, 16 May 2002 09:41:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daleco [12.145.236.63] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.06) id A0F628E9011A; Thu, 16 May 2002 11:40:22 -0500 Message-ID: <060c01c1fcf8$7082e500$3dec910c@daleco> From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: "Matthias Buelow" Cc: , References: <200205161409.HAA06888@eskimo.com> <20020516143155.GA2094@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg> Subject: Re: MacOS X , FreeBSD, UNIX and kleenex Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:40:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthias Buelow" To: Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 9:31 AM Subject: Re: MacOS X , FreeBSD, UNIX and kleenex > Ross Lippert writes: > > >that they have no problem proclaiming that there is UNIX underneathe their > >new OS. > >1) have I misunderstood the UNIX versus UN*X branding/naming issue? > >2) (if no) has apple bought itself a rubber stamp from the trademark holders? > > Oh, yes, I can already see the almighty The Open Group sue > Apple Computers, Inc. for trademark abuse. *laughs* > > > --mkb Which would be very interesting since they don't seem to exist, or at least the link on the page Ross dropped to us didn't find a domain..... When Novell bought Unix Systems Labs, didn't the "who *owns* Unix wars" die for lack of enthusiasm? Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message