--- Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Mr. Brigham Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
> > I've started using Nix because it seems more inclusive.
> 
> How's "Nix" (or "*nix") more inclusive than "Un*x"?
> None of these includes Linux, HP UX, AIX, IRIX, *BSD, Solaris etc. ?
> ;-)

The same thing Un*x does. i.e. not much <LOL>
--Brig. 

> > Originally I
> > understood the use of "Un*x" was to protect against lawsuits from AT&T
> > during the great BSD Freedom wars.
> 
> Yes; and IIRC "UNIX" (ie all upper-case) is still a trademark of
> AT&T/Bell Labs, no?

Yes AFAIK

> 
> -Jan
> 
> -- 
> Probability factor of one to one. We have normality. I repeat, we have 
> normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own
lookout.


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"R. Brigham Young II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Senior Systems Analyst, CAUSMIS Research Group
Dept. of Materials Science Engineering
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-3024
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