UNIX trademark registration

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Wed Dec 12 05:48:38 AEST 1984


> ...  The other ["Non-AT&T based UNIX-like"] is GNU by Robert
> Stallman (programmer to the people) which he is attempting to do so that
> computer users of the world can be free of AT&T's capitalistic tyranny.

Actually, the thing that most struck me about GNU was that Stallman had
such a long list of "improvements" he wanted to make that the result was
most unlikely to resemble Unix very much.  Kiss portability goodbye...
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry



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