From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 13:44:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14195 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:44:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netcom18.netcom.com (das@netcom18.netcom.com [192.100.81.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14182; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:44:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from das@netcom.com) Received: (from das@localhost) by netcom18.netcom.com (8.8.5-r-beta/8.8.5/(NETCOM v1.02)) id NAA26970; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:44:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:44:02 -0800 (PST) From: Das Devaraj Reply-To: Das Devaraj Subject: Is FreeBSD UNIX? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk (This is _reluctantly_ sent to freeBSD-isp also, in case the commercial folks - ISPs - see it in a different light). Can I _legally_ claim that my box running FreeBSD is UNIX? Or should it phrased that the OS is a _UNIX clone_. Note that this has nothing to do with the actual power of FreeBSD. What happened after the UNIX name was bought from AT&T by Novell (is it public domain now?) Also is there a minimum set of functionality that needs to be supported before something is considered UNIX or even a UNIX clone? Have heard terms like UNIX 95, X/Open branding etc. tossed around. das ------------------------------------------------------------------- Interested in Vegetarianism? Vegetarian Restaurant Trek Web http://www.VegInfo.com 712 Bancroft Road #320 e-mail info@VegInfo.com (subject Help) Walnut Creek, CA 94598 Interactive Voice/fax Response (510) 256-8420 USA