Re: M$ licenses Unix
On 20 May 2003 21:45:33 +0200,
Mark Janssen wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 20:37, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> > I read somewhere that Linux was/is based on Minix, where does
> > that figure into all of this? I realize it may be a Unix
> > variant but to what degree of separation? Should I be
> > concerned that one day in the near future Linux will no
> > longer exist as an operating system?
>
> Linux is a reaction to minix, not based on (not on code anyway,
> maybe on some idea's, but more in general, unix idea's)
>
> Try googling a bit for the linux / minix history and maybe for
> "Tanenbaum and Linus"
>
> http://www.dina.dk/~abraham/Linus_vs_Tanenbaum.html
Which makes me just curiouser. Where are the BSD's in all this?
It seems that they're immune from the SCO suit.
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