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Re: GNU, the "UNIX" trademark, and legal control over language
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mike3 |
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Re: GNU, the "UNIX" trademark, and legal control over language |
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Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:39:41 -0800 (PST) |
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On Jan 26, 5:42 pm, John Hasler <j...@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
> mike3 writes:
> > So then what is the point of contrivances like "Unix-like", "*nix",
> > "UN*X", "*n*x", etc. that are used all over in discussion boards like
> > this one, even though those discussions are often not for advertising or
> > marketing a product?
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> "Unix-like" is simply descriptive. The others are generally the result of
> people laboring under the delusion that trademark is copyright.
Thanks for the answer.