From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 14:21:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17465 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:21:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17444; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:21:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelv@MindBender.serv.net) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA22513; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:19:49 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801152219.OAA22513@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Das Devaraj cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD UNIX? In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 15 Jan 98 13:44:02 -0800. Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:19:49 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >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 My _opinion_ is screw the lawyers, FreeBSD (and NetBSD and OpenBSD) is "BSD Unix" (as opposed to SVRx Unix). Everything about it is Unix except the name. If it quacks like a duck... However, if lawyers are involved, you may have to call it Unix-like. >happened after the UNIX name was bought from AT&T by Novell (is >it public domain now?) Novell gave it to the X/Open consortium, if I'm not mistaken. It still requires a suite of tests and some sort of fee to be officially dubbed Sir Unix. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix. Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C. --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------