[misc.legal] Unix and AT&T's lawyers

riddle@woton.UUCP (11/18/87)

> > I, for one, think Unix falls into the same category as Kleenex,
> > Aspirin, and Xerox - a registered trademark, but too common to bother
> > with the footnotes.  
> 
> I don't think so. Have you yet seen "Unix" in lower case?

Here's a grep from a few days' worth of comp.unix.* articles:

   Anything that uses the unix ctime library routine is going to be in 
   Most of the software was originally produced for a version 7 unix,
   Some of the PC-based unix's might be worth looking into, if we
   a real nice 68020 , 68881, unix ... well its nice. thus, as it zips along,
   is a central unix host, wjvax, that runs all the uucp and 
   on my AT&T unix-pc.  I had meant to use -O to invoke the optimizer.
   unix    from "multics" - similar but unified
   unix compatible XBBS
   unix four people managed to destroy things within  the  same  day
   unix manuals list it as "become SuperUser"
   values will speed up the unix clock, higher values slow
   well defined times.  Too bad unix doesn't handle generations in
   where cryptic unix command names came from?  I've never seen a unix

[By the way, what say we move this discussion to misc.legal?]

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