Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...
From: Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
|On 08-Jun-99 Mark Wright wrote:
|> I've checked the FAQs, and I can't seem to find a good answer to this:
|> why is Linux not refered to as a flavor of Unix? On Linux.Org, it's
|> referred to as "Unix-like", and this hedging seems pretty universal.
|> Is there some Unix standard that Linux does not adhere to. Is there
|> some licensing organization that expects someone to pony up some dough
|> before they can say, "Unix(TM)" (but if that's it, who paid for
|> FreeBSD?) In my experience, Linux is no more different from any
|> particular flavor of Unix than Solaris is from AIX, or whatever - is
|> there some important difference I'm missing?
|
|"UNIX" is a registered trademark of The Open Group -- see
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| http://www.unix-systems.org/trademark.html
|
...
|To register a product (e.g. Linux) as "UNIX" with The Open Group you
|would have to register it under "UNIX95" or "UNIX98": see
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| http://www.opengroup.org/public/prods/xum4.htm
|
|and
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| http://www.unix-systems.org/unix98.html
|
|respectively.
Did someone register FreeBSD? If you check out FreeBSD.org, they say
"FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system".
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Mark Wright
mwright@pro-ns.net
mark_wright@datacard.com
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