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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Message-ID: <DDGsoo.F3D@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <40q6mm$c0l@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> <40qem0$482@sundog.tiac.net> <DDGLEp.MoD@info.swan.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:02:46 GMT Lines: 14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:749 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4481 comp.os.linux.advocacy:16506 In article <DDGLEp.MoD@info.swan.ac.uk> iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) writes: >Not recommended - Linux is not Unix, FreeBSD/NetBSD are not Unix. At least >not when lawyers are involved, the fact they are closer to the spirit than >those using the name is irrelevant to a lawyer. If a term passes into common use, it loses its trademark status. Help this happen! Linux and *BSD are unix, regardless of whether it's legal to say so. -- Richard -- "... we were extremely sceptical, like most people, about 'conspiracy theories of history' ..." - The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail