14 Feb
2025
14 Feb
'25
11:14 p.m.
On Friday, February 14th, 2025 at 2:55 PM, Ron Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
The lawyers insisted that Unix be upper case and only
used as an adjective.
That is required for trademarks. A trademark has to be an adjective describing a generic
noun.
I'm now reminded of Streams vs STREAMS. The current project I'm working on at
work is similarly shouted when written despite internal references being an old
crusty name in more natural casing that we all still use within the team.
This is why I love the UNIX story, it helps me rationalize things in my day to
day...or perhaps understand others rationale which is anything but to me...
- Matt G.