*BSD News Article 18565


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Release
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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 21:07:14 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Message-ID: <9307171607.14@rmkhome.UUCP>
References: <JGREELY.93Jul6170732@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu> <9307120123.17@rmkhome.UUCP> <JGREELY.93Jul13172625@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <JGREELY.93Jul13172625@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu> jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes:
>In article <9307120123.17@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>>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.
>
>So what does that have to do with the price of sausage?  My point is
>that the general public (those that use bookstores, anyway) sees books
>on a whole bunch of different products (some involving USL licenses,
>some not), all filed under the general category of "Unix", with no
>trademark symbol in evidence.  At least one extremely popular (and
>often referenced) "Unix" book carries no external declaration of
>trademark status.  What are bookstore employees and customers supposed
>to think?

I have never seen a commercially published Unix/UNIX book that didn't
have a declaration of the USL/AT&T trademark on the same page as the
publishing copyright.

Obviously, USL needs to be more strident about protecting their rights.

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Rick Kelly    rmk%rmkhome@merk.com    merk!rmkhome!rmk    rmk@frog.UUCP