[SGVLUG] trademark realities

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 8/29/05, Dustin <laurence at alice.caltech.edu> wrote:
> suggests that the UUASC usage is not legal--"It must not be used as a
> generic term."  Since UUASC includes BSD (not licenced to use the
> tradmark) and Linux (not licenced and also not decended from the AT&T
> codebase), it sounds generic to me.

An OS does not have to be a decended from AT&T code base to be an
offical "Unix" it just has to pass Unix compatabliity tests. The fact
is that a linux distro could probable pass these tests but they cost
lots of money(read hundreds of thosands of dollars).