weldon@lll-lcc.UUCP (04/11/87)
In article <4320@videovax.Tek.COM> stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steve Rice) writes: >In article <2968@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, Joel West (jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU) writes: >> >> FYI, there is no such thing as 'X Windows'. >> The folks at MIT have developed the 'X Window System'. If that's too >> much of a mouthful, call it 'X', thank you very much. > >Might as well develop a sense of humor on this issue! >Most references I have seen (press and USENET) refer to "X >Windows". Precious little chance of heading that one off. This reminds me of a package that my brother received a few years ago from the Lego company (the one that makes those wonderful lock block things that we all used to play with when we were kids). Along with a catalog and other advertising stuff, there was a note from one of their higher-ups: "We are aware that some people refer to our products as 'Legos.' Please do not do this. Please always refer to them as 'Lego Bricks and Toys.'" I can just imagine all these preschoolers going up to their friends and asking, "Can I play with your Lego Bricks and Toys?" Riiight... :-) --- Jerry Weldon ARPA: weldon@lll-lcc.ARPA UUCP: ...!lll-crg!lll-lcc!weldon
barmar@think.UUCP (04/28/87)
In article <765@lll-lcc.aRpA> weldon@lll-lcc.UUCP (Jerry Weldon) writes: >I can just imagine all these preschoolers going up to their friends and >asking, "Can I play with your Lego Bricks and Toys?" Riiight... :-) This reminds me of the Unix trademark. The word "Unix" is officially trademarked as an adjective. Therefore, you must say something like "Unix operating system", not just "Unix". I think someone should fix USENET; the correct name for the newsgroup should be comp.sys.unix-operating-system. :-)