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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Is *BSD Unix? (was: Re: Is FreeBSD free?) Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <D0AIpq.6v3@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <1994Dec2.034142.18344@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <3bn21t$qn6@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <1994Dec3.084230.18858@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 14:25:02 GMT Lines: 12 In article <1994Dec3.084230.18858@durie.wanganui.gen.nz>, Liam Greenwood <liam@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> wrote: >This is true. Are any of the freely distributable BSD based >systems Unix? Well, there's some people who think the BSD systems *are* UNIX. That's a dangerous thing to go around saying. After all, USL and BSDI came to a *settlement*. There was no actual court decision. Should X/Open or some later owner of the trademark (it's gone through so many hands lately I wouldn't bet it's settled down for good) decide to get nasty, it'd be better to avoid feeding the lawyers anything. Even if you win a lawsuit it's expensive.