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From: Horacio (homegaciberia.es)
Date: Mon Mar 05 2001 - 13:50:20 CST

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    On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, Ric Messier wrote:

    > The OpenGroup is correct according to the folks at NetBSD
    > (http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/call-it-a-duck.html). Make sure you
    > write it UNIX and not Unix. :-) AT&T always used to be very
    > particular about that. Of course, that was a lot of years ago.
    >
    > I wonder if it will soon be ruled one of those words that has
    > fallen into the public domain and not copyright-able (much like
    > Aspirin, etc) since it is used in a generic sense far more than
    > it is applied to a specific UNIX implementation these days.

    There is a fire extinguishers company in Spain called "Unix
    (Universal de Extintores)", which I believe has been around
    longer than the Unix O.S.