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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!news!kstailey From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: What is "BSD"? Date: 25 Aug 1995 00:22:45 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <KSTAILEY.95Aug24202245@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <CGD.95Aug20032937@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU> <4199pv$skk@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> <41adgc$b0m@bsdi.BSDI.COM> <DDo9z9.JFC@kithrup.com> <VIXIE.95Aug21180823@wisdom.home.vix.com> <KSTAILEY.95Aug23084007@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <VIXIE.95Aug23111011@gw.vix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov In-reply-to: vixie@gw.vix.com's message of 23 Aug 1995 18:10:11 GMT In article <VIXIE.95Aug23111011@gw.vix.com> vixie@gw.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) writes: <VIXIE.95Aug21180823@wisdom.home.vix.com> <KSTAILEY.95Aug23084007@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> >>> now can someone please tell me the "harm" that's been done? >>The trademarked BSD is now the technologically inferior one. > I, um, won't debate that with you. But you didn't answer my > question, or at least, you did not demonstrate harm. FreeBSD got > its trademark. All indications are that NetBSD could have its > trademark. Nobody wants to call their system "BSD" now that CSRG is > dead; not even BSDi uses that for a product name (they use BSD/OS, > for the record.) So, what harm? It stinks. Without asking anyone they took a name they did not invent, one that appears in print in countless places without at trademark symbol, put a trademark on it that binds their inferior release of it to that name and then told us it is for our good and that we should help them by signing agreements that validate their position. ~Ken