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Date:      06 Oct 2001 09:04:51 -0700
From:      swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Use of the UNIX Trademark
Message-ID:  <pc4rpckb4s.rpc@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <003601c14e56$0feb08e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
References:  <003601c14e56$0feb08e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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You wrote:

> I think that something else too deserves to be stated here about TOG.

Maybe, since you've worked these trademark issues before, you could
say how TOG (or trademark lawyers in general) react to the use of things
like "Unix-like", "Unixy", or "Un*x" in the same places they would
complain about the use of "Unix".  Eg, on a FreeBSD-promoting web site,
or a FreeBSD-book-promoting web site, not necessarily FreeBSD.org.

Ex:

FreeBSD is a Unix(TM)-like OS.  (with proper TM blurb at bottom, etc.)

FreeBSD is one of many free Unixy [or unixy] OSes.

FreeBSD is a near-clone of Un*x, evolving from a Un*x-branded code base.

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