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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Is *BSD Unix? (was: Re: Is FreeBSD free?) Message-ID: <D0Hs5F.MFw@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <cc.andrews.edu> <1994Dec3.084230.18858@durie.wanganui.gen.nz>> <JKH.94Dec4001838@whisker.hubbard.ie> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 12:32:02 GMT Lines: 18 > Are any of the freely distributable BSD based systems Unix? Jordan quite correctly points out that these systems are (probably*) not legally entitled to call themselves Unix. Of course, this has no bearing on whether they really *are* Unix in the normal sense of the term, which of course they are. [* I have no idea whether the trademark status of "Unix" would stand up in court. For example, AT&T's own publications have referred to "Berkeley Unix" and it might well be judged to have become a generic term.] -- Richard -- Satan himself, in a sermon preached from the pulpit of North Berwick church, comforted his many servants by assuring them that no harm could befall them "sa lang as their hair wes on, an sould newir latt ane teir fall fra thair ene". - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough