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From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 19 Aug 1995 03:04:21 GMT
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tporczyk@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) wrote:
>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).
>

In point of fact, when I became aware of Unix it was as a type of OS --
this is in the 70s folks.  I did not think of UNIX as a brand of OS.
It seems to me that AT&T wasn't doing a very good job protecting
its' unix Trademark.

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