UNIX trademark

[John Gilmore]

> Is Brian Kernighan trying to wage an inside battle against the
> lawyers?
>   Russ Rew

No, it's just that lawyers are paid to wage battle against reality.
I don't begrudge courts their job -- trying to reconcile the real world
with the "imaginative" things lawyers write to justify their salaries.
In the trademark case, languages evolve, shedding and gaining words and
constructs.  All lawyers can do is put fingers in dykes; they can't stop
the tide.

	"Reach out and grep* someone"

* grep is not a trademark of AT&T Bell Lawyetories