BSD

[John]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 09:47:29AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, DanGer wrote:
> 
> > > No.  It means "Berkeley Software Distribution".
> > 
> > but what about:
> > "**BSD is a registered trademark of Berkeley Software Design, Inc." ?
> > taken from www.bsd.org
> 
> That would be BSDI, a commercial venture who (until they were done over by 
> WinDriver) gave us BSD/OS.
> 
> -- Dave
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BSD originally meant Berkely Software Distribution, in implicit
reference to the University of California at Berkeley.  The term
never had any legal standing, and when the BSD project shut down
with 4.4-LITE (I think that was the last), it had no non-legal
currency, either, so BSDI chose to register BSD as a trademark...

You can hail them for doing this, as a way to protect it, or pan them
for trying to coopt it - your choice.
-- 

John Lind
john at starfire.MN.ORG