Ian McWilliam <i.mcwill...@westernsydney.edu.au> wrote: > Isn't Unix a trademark of the Open Group? Hence the usage of Unix-like or > Un*x..
Yeah I have no complaint with "Unix-like". I'm happy to learn about the historical reasons for writing "Un*x". If it's to be suggestive of variants, that makes a little bit of sense, though if we interpret it as a shell glob I'm not sure what other extant system names other than "Unix" are matched by "Un*x". If it started as self-censorship of the word "Unix" in an attempt to avoid trademark infringement, that strikes me as unlikely to be a legally consequential maneuver. (But I am not a lawyer etc etc) Evan Silberman
