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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Unix or UNIX?
From:       trisk () jhu ! edu
Date:       2005-01-27 2:09:17
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0501262058520.1848 () centaur ! acm ! jhu ! edu
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Malte S. Stretz wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 January 2005 09:00 CET Triskelios wrote:
>> [...]
>> The platform in general is commonly called "Unix", but there should be no
>> problems with using the name "UNIX" as referring to the target platform
>> of applications software (as opposed to calling a specific OS "UNIX").
>
> The lawyers may care, if the trademark is really "UNIX", not "Unix".  It's
> like "SPAM" vs. "Spam" -- Hormel forbids to use the former for anything not
> being "luncheon-meat" while the latter is ok for UBE.
>
> Cheers,
> Malte
>
>

My original point is in perfect agreement with yours. I'm stating 
that while it's not appropriate to apply to trademark to arbitrary OS 
software (the clarification is in parentheses), stating that 
*application software*  "runs on UNIX" is, because that doesn't 
misrepresent the meaning of the trademark. In other words, "goes well with 
SPAM" does refer to a specific brand of lunch-meat.

-Trisk
 
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