About the comp.unix.internals fluster

Thu Sep 13 07:56:15 AEST 1990

In <15489 at drilex.UUCP> dricejb at drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson drilex1) writes:

     Use of Unix as a noun is an encroachment on AT&T's trademark...
     If a trademark becomes a noun...

Too late...My observation is that UNIX has been a noun for about ten
years now.  Its adjective status probably exists only in the minds of
AT&T's lawyers.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
UUCP:  oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi