[9fans] "Plan 9 Linux"

[9fans] "Plan 9 Linux"

[Christoph Lohmann]

Good day.

As spreaded on IRC:

	http://www.plan9linux.com

The owner uses "Plan 9" as "All Rights Reserved", but in the small logos
at Bell Labs, with "Powered by Plan 9", is a small Trademark sign behind
"Plan 9".

Sincerely,

Christoph

Re: [9fans] "Plan 9 Linux"

[John Floren]

Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> Good day.
> 
> As spreaded on IRC:
> 
> 	http://www.plan9linux.com
> 
> The owner uses "Plan 9" as "All Rights Reserved", but in the small logos
> at Bell Labs, with "Powered by Plan 9", is a small Trademark sign behind
> "Plan 9".
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Christoph
> 
> .
> 
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?

John
-- 
http://nuwen.net/~digi/cluster
Why don't you ever enter any CONTESTS, Marvin??  Don't you know your
own ZIPCODE?

Re: [9fans] "Plan 9 Linux"

[Russ Cox]

> 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

Re: [9fans] "Plan 9 Linux"

[Crossfire]

Russ Cox was once rumoured to have said:
> > 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

That logo he uses next to 'plan9' is also a registered trademark of
Canonincal (the company that 'owns' ubuntu).
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=j0fv6t.6.5

C.

Re: [9fans] "Plan 9 Linux"

[andrey mirtchovski]

this gem surely will make it in the fortunes:

"Plan 9 comes with everything from a web browser and an IM client, to
multimedia software and an office suite."

Re: [9fans] "Plan 9 Linux"

[Brantley Coile]

"Plan 9 comes with everything from a web browser and an IM client, to
multimedia software and an office suite."

that should be added to plan9.bell-labs.com with a footnote
indicating that plan 9 in ambigious and may refer to something
other than bell labs' plan 9, written in 3 pt. type in Anglo-Saxon.
(Unicode is neat!)  :)

RE: [9fans] "Plan 9 Linux"

[Trickey, Howard W (Howard)]

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

Re: [9fans] "Plan 9 Linux"

[Skip Tavakkolian]

hear Sean Parsons talk about it; it appears it was done on purpose.

go to:

http://odeo.com/audio/234091/view

advance the playtime to 6:30 and listen for about 1 minute.

Re: [9fans] "Plan 9 Linux"

[andrey mirtchovski]

and now for something completely different: "a man with.." err,
"selected quotes from the manual"

"Linux by itself is a text based system with few applications. It is
reminiscent of DOS, but with multi-tasking, multi-user, hyperthreading
capabilities, and more. But, such a system by itself can be very
intimidating (and of limited use), which is why it is commonly
referred to as GNU/Linux."

"Linux is just a kernel (the core of your operating), but by including
GNU/Linux you achieve a complete system. For simplicity sake though,
GNU/Linux is often referred to as just Linux and this book will often
acquiesce to that commonly accepted standard."

"To understand the power of Linux you need not look any further than
the fastest super computer in the world, Blue Gene, which happens to
use Linux as its operating system. Linux is also the backbone of the
internet as the Apache webserver accounts for 60% of the world wide
web and runs primarily on Linux and BSD."


thank you! i'll be here all week!

Re: [9fans] "Plan 9 Linux"

[Devon H. O'Dell]

2005/11/8, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>:
> "To understand the power of Linux you need not look any further than
> the fastest super computer in the world, Blue Gene, which happens to
> use Linux as its operating system. Linux is also the backbone of the
> internet as the Apache webserver accounts for 60% of the world wide
> web and runs primarily on Linux and BSD."

I like how they duck out of this statistic. The majority of the 60% of
Apache servers running Linux or BSD, are BSD.

> thank you! i'll be here all week!

Tell a couple more, I could use the laughs :)

--D