From: "Trickey, Howard W (Howard)" <trickey@lucent.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] "Plan 9 Linux"
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 10:23:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BD3BB8D47F9DE4984C319EA325A006DD14EC1@nj9620exch003u.mh.lucent.com> (raw)
I've brought this to the attention of our lawyers. I don't know yet what they'll do about it, if anything.
- Howard Trickey
-----Original Message-----
From: 9fans-bounces+trickey=lucent.com@cse.psu.edu [mailto:9fans-bounces+trickey=lucent.com@cse.psu.edu] On Behalf Of Russ Cox
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:18 AM
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Subject: Re: [9fans] "Plan 9 Linux"
> Wow. At first I thought this was Linux with some Plan 9-like
> extensions, but now it appears that this guy merely took the Plan 9 name
> and slapped it on his distro because it sounds cool. I assume somebody
> will be emailing him to stop?
I emailed him. We'll see what happens. For those who are curious,
Plan 9 really is a registered trademark of Bell Labs:
http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=registration&entry=2065577&action=Request+Status
Russ
next reply other threads:[~2005-11-08 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-08 15:23 Trickey, Howard W (Howard) [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-08 20:37 Skip Tavakkolian
2005-11-08 21:48 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-11-08 23:16 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-11-08 14:08 Christoph Lohmann
2005-11-08 15:15 ` John Floren
2005-11-08 15:18 ` Russ Cox
2005-11-08 19:37 ` Crossfire
2005-11-08 19:45 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-11-08 20:09 ` Brantley Coile
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