From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 20:21:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B1F937B40E for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 20:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gunnar.weygold.edu (pool0219.cvx15-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.44.219]) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with SMTP id f993Le926754 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 20:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold Organization: The Pagan Library To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use of the UNIX Trademark Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 20:16:35 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <5.0.2.1.0.20011005104743.00a097e0@mailhome.rdg.opengroup.org> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20011005104743.00a097e0@mailhome.rdg.opengroup.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01100820163507.00577@gunnar.weygold.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 On Friday 05 October 2001 03:05, you wrote: > Sirs, > > You may not be aware that we, X/Open Company Limited (trading as The Op= en > Group) own the UNIX Trademark and therefore enjoy exclusive rights to i= ts > use. It has come to our attention that your website contains references= to > UNIX, such as "FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system..." and > "...Free BSD (is) a very economical alternative to commercial UNIX > workstations." > > Any use of our trademark on or in connection with a product is only > permissable if such a product is registered with us as conformant to th= e > Single UNIX Specification, and FreeBSD is not so registered. We encoura= ge > the correct use of the UNIX trademark in accordance with The Open Group= 's > Trademark Usage Guide, and a copy of this can be found on our website U= RL > http:www.opengroup.org/trademarks.htm. > > Once you have had an opportunity to review the guide, we trust you will > take the necessary steps to correct your website so as to avoid > infringement of our rights. Kindly confirm to us when you have made the > changes. > > Yours faithfully, > > Morag Nunn (Mrs) > According to "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (www.dict.org) (BSD) A family of Unix versions for the DEC VAX and PDP-11, developed by Bill Joy and others at the University of California at Berkeley. BSD Unix incorporates paged virtual memory, TCP/IP networking enhancements, and many other features. =20 BSD UNIX 4.0 was released on 19 October 1980. The BSD versions (4.1, 4.2, and 4.3) and the commercial versions derived from them ({SunOS, ULTRIX, Mt. Xinu, Dynix) held the technical lead in the Unix world until AT&T's successful standardisation efforts after about 1986, and are still widely popular. =20 See also Berzerkeley, USG Unix. It looks like there's going to have to be a LOT of correcting going on... Seriously, though, the above paragraphs would imply prior art, wouldn't t= hey? --=20 You wouldn't be so smug if you really knew what was going on. Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold http://www.paganlibrary.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message