From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.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 10:18:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0511080718y3d0d9644pd41019243ef5a404@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4370C122.6000205@moseslake-wa.com>
> 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 prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-08 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-08 14:08 Christoph Lohmann
2005-11-08 15:15 ` John Floren
2005-11-08 15:18 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-11-08 19:37 ` Crossfire
2005-11-08 19:45 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-11-08 20:09 ` Brantley Coile
2005-11-08 15:23 Trickey, Howard W (Howard)
2005-11-08 20:37 Skip Tavakkolian
2005-11-08 21:48 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-11-08 23:16 ` Devon H. O'Dell
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