[Info-vax] What is a "real" Unix ?

[gah4]

On Monday, September 4, 2023 at 7:33:58 AM UTC-7, Scott Dorsey wrote:

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> That's because it's not Unix. Unix is a trademark of Lucent now.

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> If they are licensed by Lucent who owns the trademark, then yes. If not, 
> then not. Lucent gets to decide. If Lucent wants to license that trademark 
> to VMS or to a washing machine, they can. Then they would be Unix. But 
> Lucent has not licensed it to any Linux distributor.

Unless the trademark is genericized, being used so often for the non
official product, that it loses its status.

Companies try hard to stop it from happening, though.