Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...
Hi,
Actually, in the Open Source book by O' Reilly, Linus himself
answers this question : all other variants of UNIX were actually derived
from the AT&T and (eventually) BSD source code. Linux was written from
scratch and is not based off of the AT&T or BSD sources. So Linux is
really a UNIX like OS (because it does have the same architecture) but is
not a UNIX variant.
Regards,
Jor-el
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
>
> > > Mark Wright writes:
> > > > Did someone register FreeBSD? If you check out FreeBSD.org, they say
> > > > "FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system".
> > >
> > > They don't need anyone's permission to call FreeBSD UNIX. They aren't
> > > selling it.
> >
> > I don't think that's anything to do with it. BSD UNIX *is* a UNIX
> > operating system (Berkeley Standard Derivation or somthing), so it
> > is within its rights to call itself UNIX.
>
> Not really. It /is/ BSD, which is directly derived from AT&T UNIX.
> However, UNIX is a trademark which an operating system must be branded
> with. It involves testing with The Open Group and paying a lot of money to
> them for the right to use the name. I tend to refer to *BSD, as well as
> commercial Unices, as GNU-like operating systems, while GNU/Linux and (of
> course) GNU/HURD are GNU operating systems. Noone owns a trademark on the
> term GNU, and anyone but RMS and the FSF would have a rather difficult
> time trying to get one, so it should be quite all right to call such
> things GNU-like operating systems, rather than labelling them UNIX-like.
>
>
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