From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 18:01:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E32E16A419 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:01:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.bluestop.org (muon.bluestop.org [IPv6:2001:41c8:1:548a::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D6013C442 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:01:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.draftnet (unknown [IPv6:2a01:348:10f:1::5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.bluestop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3300D30179; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:01:01 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <47179F3D.70205@cran.org.uk> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:00:29 +0100 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070809) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" References: <20071018133421.B92952@prime.gushi.org> <47176229.50904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47176229.50904@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:01:03 -0000 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >> I recently noticed that Apple's new OS, Leopard, is Unix certified. > > "UNIX Certified" what the #@$#$@ does that mean as far I know no one is > in a position to make such a statement except maybe the current owner of > the Unix trademark (sco if I am not mistaken) >> I'd imagine that the big reason that FreeBSD hasn't done this yet is: >> It costs a lot of money. Apparently The Open Group are in charge of UNIX certification - see http://www.opengroup.org/certification/ for details. -- Bruce > > And give SCO a reason to actually consolidate it's illegitimate claim to > be the steward of Unix when there is no such thing beyond the holder of > the trademark. >> >> That said, if in theory one were to try to get the operating system >> certified (say, to increase awareness and market share versus the >> penguinistas)... >> >> a) approximately how much money is "a lot"? >> >> and >> >> b) How far short, technically, does FreeBSD fall from the standard >> (we'll ignore operational semantics for the time being) > > MacOS-X is FreeBSD at it's core thus we are ready now (actually all > that is required is POSIX complience) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >