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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Death Square</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="death-code.html" title="death code"/><link rel="next" href="Death-Star.html" title="Death Star"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Death Square</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="death-code.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Death-Star.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Death-Square"/><dt xmlns="" id="Death-Square"><b>Death Square</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The corporate logo of Novell, the people who acquired USL after
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AT&T let go of it (Novell eventually sold the Unix group to SCO).
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Coined by analogy with <a href="Death-Star.html"><i class="glossterm">Death Star</i></a>, because many
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people believed Novell was bungling the lead in Unix systems exactly as
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AT&T did for many years.</p><p>[They were right —ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="death-code.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Death-Star.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">death code </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Death Star</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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