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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
Date: 1996/04/07
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Date: 1996-04-07T00:00:00+00:00
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"No, they call themselves Unix. They *cannot* call themselves UNIX(tm)."

This surely must be wrong, either Unix is a trade mark or it is not. If
it is, then the whole point of a trademark is that it stops people
from using it without your permission, or without appropriate acknowledgement.

In fact from what Dan Pop says, systems like Solaris and Irix *can* in
fact call themselves Unix, since they have an appropaite agreement with
the trademark holder. What is not clear is what is involved (other than
paying a fee) in getting this permission (i.e. is there any formal
testing process?)