From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 16 16:58:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12405 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:58:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from magicnet.magicnet.net (root@magicnet.magicnet.net [204.96.116.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA12383 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:58:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: from bilver.magicnet.net (root@localhost) by magicnet.magicnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id TAA02863 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 19:55:03 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) id TAA03250 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 19:43:30 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Vermillion Message-Id: <199801170043.TAA03250@bilver.magicnet.net> Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD UNIX? In-Reply-To: <19980117090750.07770@lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jan 17, 98 09:07:50 am" To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 19:43:30 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Recently Greg Lehey said: > On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 05:38:44PM +0200, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote: > > Das Devaraj wrote: > >> (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 > > clone. UNIX is register trademark of X/Open.www.xopen.org > As used in computing, a clone is a copy made to imitate the original. > That definition doesn't fit FreeBSD. It's more like a disowned member > of the family. But it's really not disowned. When the first BSD started from the old version 7 at Berkeley, it was built upon the AT&T code. The 4.4 Lite was the BSD distribution with all AT&T copyrighted code taken from it. Since BSD was >THE< Unix for most of the educational world, I think that BSD is closer to the original than all the Sys V variants - that have strayed a long way from the 'true course' :-). If you look at the BSD manual from O'Reilly, a good hunk of them are just reprints (with slight modifications) from the old Version 7 Bell Labs books I have from about 1983. It even feels more like the old stuff than most of the newer OS'es. But this is just my own warped opinion. Bill -- bill@bilver.magicnet.net | bill@bilver.com