Dave CROCKER wrote:
Armando said that he was finally able to say that DEC could offer a Unix
license. He then bent down and held up a license plate that sayd "Unix"
on it, purporting to be from Vermont ("live free or die").
This was, of course, a huge success. So DEC's marketing folks wanted to
do it again and, I am told, the DEC Unix group said they would not
permit this, that it had been a one-time special.
The compromise was that the license plate was in fact produced again,
but in a different color.
In point of fact they (Compaq by then) later produced Linux license
plates, which is either a derivative work or a more complete realization
or both depending on your perspective.
This idea of making the follow-on version have key differences from the
original, without losing the essence, might help here.
d/
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