Re: [PATCH] Book fixes: typos, grammar, consistency

Michael Sweet <mike@easysw.com> writes:
> Michael W Thelen wrote:
> > ...
> > "UNIX" -> "Unix" (except in Fitz's acknowledgment)
> > ...
>
> This has come up in all of the books I have written; the correct
> spelling is UNIX (all caps) since it is a registered trademark and
> a product name.

Holding a trademark isn't the same as governing the language :-). The
word "Unix" also has a meaning, very similar to that of "UNIX", and in
fact may be more accurate when referring to UNIX-like systems -- such
as the free Unices -- that are not the specific product referred to by
"UNIX". Such systems are included in the book's use of the word.

I don't really care which way the book author's go; just upholding the
other side in the eternal descriptivist/prescriptivist debate. :-)

-Karl

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Received on Thu May 6 19:28:25 2004