From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 6 10:22:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D6337B405 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 10:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from httpd@localhost) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f96HM7c08965; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:22:07 +0200 (CEST) To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" Subject: RE: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <1002388927.3bbf3dbf4db45@webmail.neomedia.it> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 19:22:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.4-cvs X-WebMail-Company: Neomedia s.a.s. X-Originating-IP: 62.98.237.169 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ This is WAY OT for -questions. My apologies. I usually refrain. :-) ] > But TOG seems to own this word and we have to accept that. > Nowadays we have to use words like "open-source", "free" > or "non-commercial" to describe the different paradigm > [or ask Fidel Castro if we can have "communist" :-) ] ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ Would you define Scientific Thought as "communist"? Try and imagine how far the world could have gone if such rules as those for trademarks had applied to scientific research. In particular, suppose each and every researcher had had to pay $MONEY in order to be allowed to utilize eg Galileo's ideas, Newton's laws, Maxwell's equations[*], etc. Hint: think of Afghanistan... -- Salvo [*] Given the, er, boundary conditions, I am not quite sure whether those would have been written by now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message