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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Release Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 06:23:12 GMT Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Message-ID: <9307120123.17@rmkhome.UUCP> References: <C9IGKz.13z@kithrup.com> <ROB.93Jul1201153@gangrene.berkeley.edu> <JGREELY.93Jul6170732@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu> Lines: 28 In article <JGREELY.93Jul6170732@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu> jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes: >In article <ROB.93Jul1201153@gangrene.berkeley.edu> rob@agate.berkeley.edu > (Rob Robertson) writes: >>you can face getting sued by USL by saying `unix' the wrong way. > >Funny that they're rather selective about this. Every bookstore I've >been in that has much in the way of computer books has a "Unix" (no >trademark) section, in which they file books on SCO, Xenix, Solaris, >NextStep, etc. Why, you might even find a copy of "The UNIX >Programming Environment", which has no external (R) or TM decorations, >on front, back, or spine. Of all the Unix books on my shelf, the only >one that doesn't have an (R) on it came from Bell Labs. Go figure. > > As a consumer, I've certainly been lead to believe that "Unix" is a >generic term for a class of operating systems sharing certain >features... >-- >J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely) All the OS packages sold as UNIX (SCO,Dell,ISC,ESIX,SUN,etc) are sold by companies who have paid USL the approximately $150000 in license fees to get the source and use the name. This also includes OSF, NeXT, and other Mach based systems. -- Rick Kelly rmk%rmkhome@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP