[NTLUG:Discuss] On Linux distributions.

[Jim Wildman]

And at one point AT&T was 'aggressive' in defending their trademark.
ie, their lawyers prowled through the electronic corridors of usenet
looking for 'abusers'.

Yes, there were monopolies before MircoSoft.

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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Jeremy Blosser wrote:

>
> To be pedantic, and add a bit more history ;), UNIX is the trademarked term
> (all caps).  From the jargon file:
>
> "Some people are confused over whether this word is appropriately `UNIX' or
> `Unix'; both forms are common, and used interchangeably. Dennis Ritchie
> says that the `UNIX' spelling originally happened in CACM's 1974 paper "The
> UNIX Time-Sharing System" because "we had a new typesetter and troff had
> just been invented and we were intoxicated by being able to produce small
> caps." Later, dmr tried to get the spelling changed to `Unix' in a couple
> of Bell Labs papers, on the grounds that the word is not acronymic. He
> failed, and eventually (his words) "wimped out" on the issue. So, while the
> trademark today is `UNIX', both capitalizations are grounded in ancient
> usage; the Jargon File uses `Unix' in deference to dmr's wishes."
>
>