Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!wivax!cadmus!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: UNIX trademark Message-ID: <5896@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 08:31:18 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5896 Posted: Mon Nov 19 08:31:18 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Nov-84 05:30:44 EST References: <5882@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 11 > 'The trademark UNIX may not be used as a noun, but must always > be used as an adjective modifying a common noun as in "UNIX > operating system"' Does anyone know why the lawyers decided this? "Coke beverage is the real thing" "It's the Pepsi beverage generation" Yuck!