From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 14:49:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from euclid.base2.org (00-a0-cc-23-48-8c.bconnected.net [209.53.31.231]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3073F57; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:49:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from 00-a0-cc-23-48-8c.bconnected.net (james@00-a0-cc-23-48-8c.bconnected.net [209.53.31.231]) by euclid.base2.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02580; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:48:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from james@base2.org) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:48:17 -0800 (PST) From: James Clifford To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: BSD = Unix ??? In-Reply-To: <04a501bf6ced$14f961c0$020a0a0a@megared.net.mx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think that the trademark is an important issue, but while Linux is build to work like Unix, *BSD can actually trace its roots back to AT&T. It's not a Unix workalike but is actually a Unix... except for the licensing issues of the offical name. On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: > Hi, > > Unix its a trademark, and the owner righ now I think its Santa Cruz > Operation, and all the systems that wants to be called unix, have to pay for > the use of the name. > > Greetings... > Ales To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message