cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2005.01.06 09:19:43 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:35:11 +0100
> > From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org>
> > Sender: owner-cvs-all at freebsd.org
> > 
> > 
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> > On 2005.01.06 04:53:53 +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > keramida    2005-01-06 04:53:53 UTC
> > >=20
> > >   FreeBSD doc repository
> > >=20
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml=20
> > >   Log:
> > >   Use a dash between "Unix" and "like" in "Unix-like", otherwise line
> > >   breaks may appear in quite surprising places, leaving "UNIX" on the
> > >   right edge of a line and "like" on the beginning of the next one,
> > >   which would look a bit funny.
> > 
> > This is unfortunatly a bad solution since the trademark requirements
> > for "UNIX" explicitly state that merging the trademark with other
> > words using hypens is not allowed.  How about just using a &nbsp;
> > instead?
> > 
> > Reference: http://www.unix.org/tmug2.pdf
> 
> As far as I know, the trade marked name is UNIX. 

It is, and that is actually also what's being used (since that's what
the &unix; entity generates, it was only the commit message that used
mixed case.

> "There is no logo for the UNIX trade mark and, other the]an the need for
> the mark to always be reproduced in capitals, not specific form is
> prescribed." 
> 
> I am not clear on whether it is legal to use Unix, but it is not the
> trade marked name, so is probably no more correct than Unix-like. The
> document never discusses the use of Unix, unix, or anything that is not
> all caps.

Indeed, using "UNIX" (with proper trademark symbol) is the correct way
to refer to UNIX.  It was changed to that all places (could of course
have missed a few) on the FreeBSD web site and in the documentation
about a year and a half ago, after a request from The Open Group.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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