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From: stroyan@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Name for Amiga U**X
Message-ID: <5500014@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Mar 88 01:22:10 GMT
References: <4475@megaron.arizona.edu>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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> can't Commmodore just call it Unix?
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No.  AT&T will license the software, but they won't license the name.
If a computer vendor wants to refer to there operating system, then
they will have to come up with their own name to call it by.
The only exceptions to this are Microsoft and Sun.  Microsoft struck
a deal with AT&T where Microsoft hands over some Xenix features and
AT&T hands over the name.  As far as I can tell, Sun uses it because
there marketing department is brash and will do anything that they
can continue to get away with.

Mike Stroyan

P.S. These opinions are my own until a lawyer calls.  Then they're line noise.