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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!news!brtmac From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Announcing 386BSD Release 0.1 Message-ID: <BRTMAC.92Jul29224116@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: 30 Jul 92 03:41:16 GMT References: <14cuvtINN568@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul20.135540.12384@uvm.edu> <10916@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu> Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: maverick.ksu.ksu.edu In-reply-to: bill@prijat.cs.uofs.edu's message of 21 Jul 92 17:27:16 GMT In article <10916@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu> bill@prijat.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: >In article <1992Jul20.135540.12384@uvm.edu>, wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes: >|> >|> 3. As far as everybody who is not employed by AT&T and its >|> licensees is concerned, BSD *is* UNIX, whether it actually contains >|> AT&T code or not. >|> > >I believe that AT&T has started a lawsuit against BSDI that is going to >put an end to this idea real quick. If it don't say AT&T, it ain't UNIX. I'm curious how this stands up against the common usage law. When does UNIX come up for trademark/copyright renewal? It's my understanding that when a word becomes common usage to describe a general idea and not a specific product the rights of that trademark are lost and anyone can use it to describe their product. I'd say that UNIX is pretty much a common usage term used to describe a way of doing things more than a specific product from a specific vendor. ++Brett;