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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


             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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