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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!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!tporczyk From: tporczyk@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Message-ID: <tporczykDDIMyI.HK1@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <40q6mm$c0l@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> <40qem0$482@sundog.tiac.net> <DDGLEp.MoD@info.swan.ac.uk> <DDGsoo.F3D@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4121np$ig8@sundog.tiac.net> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 16:54:18 GMT Lines: 20 Sender: tporczyk@netcom2.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:779 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4665 comp.os.linux.advocacy:16981 Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> writes: >Technically, once a company loses a case on it's Trademark the trademark >becomes unenforcable. All someone need do in response is point to the >precident. Perhaps it's time for a court challenge. I can tell you than in the classroom it becomes obvious that unix has become a common word as all the students use it without regard to which flavor of "UNIX" they speak about. They wouldn't know what I was talking about if I started saying "UN*X-like" (how do pronounce that?) etc. stuff (okay, some would, but it would be a significant minority). t. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Porczyk * tporczyk@netcom.com * San Jose, California * GIT/ED d++$(!d) s++:++ a? C++++ UBSL++++$ P+ E--- W(--) N++ !k w-- M- V? b- PS+++@ PE++ O X-- Y++@ PGP-- t+@ 5-- R* D---- !e>e++@ h* y** r+++(*)+++(*)> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------