From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 16:49:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58BB737B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:49:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 16751 invoked by uid 100); 9 Mar 2001 00:49:15 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15016.10379.661991.425961@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:49:15 -0600 To: "Jim Ekleberry" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD UNIX or UNIX-like? In-Reply-To: <89587299@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Ekleberry types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please don't do that - just send plain text, with no HTML. > ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C0A7AB.FA279C40 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > A friend and I are debating as to whether FreeBSD is really BSD UNIX = > ported for the x86 and Alpha platforms, or if it is UNIX-like similar to = > Linux. Since no one else mentioned Linux: BSD was developed from the AT&T source code for Unix. The court case over the possible copyright violation was settled before the court reached a decision, leaving AT&T with no legal claims on the code base that the current distributions use. Linux was rewritten (almost) from scratch to adhere to the Unix documentation, without incorporating any of the original Unix code. To me, this means that the various BSDs are Unix, as much as things like Ultrix and SunOS are, but Linux is Unix-like. The holders of the trademark disagree, and exercise their legal right to control the use of that mark, so BSD is called a Unix-like system. And the name of BSD is called ... http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message