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Re: Is Linux Unix?



Kent West wrote:
> Calling a product that has 3% of the market a "niche product" seems to
> make sense to me. Calling a product that has 90% of the market a "niche
> product" doesn't make sense to me.

    Irony is lost on you, isn't it?


> What this indicates to me is that vendors could write for all the nix's
> rather trivially, if they would just bother to do so. If that's the
> case, then yeah, the claim that there is no single Linux is a red herring.

    Even more trivial when you realize that anyone coding for OSX is coding
for FreeBSD which is Unix...

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