Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 09:40:28 -0400 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> Cc: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd vs. netbsd Message-ID: <CAGBxaXm5GqciAAX8GQB_=qAkJ9pz9FR_dTZA6Zg=SfFPMo%2Bhtw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <C56715D3-73B6-472D-A4F7-93125CBD1EFC@kicp.uchicago.edu> References: <171506d5-19aa-359e-c21d-f07257c52ebd@freenetMail.de> <20200608051434.ca70e5c5.freebsd@edvax.de> <f1613992-e3a4-6bb0-48ea-f729b758b315@freenetMail.de> <20200608050415.GA92414@geeks.org> <C56715D3-73B6-472D-A4F7-93125CBD1EFC@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 9:21 AM Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > Disclaimer: majority of systems I have in my list of UNIXes strictly > speaking can not be called UNIX, as they do not pay loyalties for that name > to AT&T. > Just as with Java your information on the legal status of Unix is ****WAY OUT OF DATE***** from wikipedia article on Unix (end of second paragraph) [you really should stop saying stuff unless you know it to be by objective fact to be true]: "In the early 1990s, AT&T sold its rights in Unix to Novell <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell>, which then sold its Unix business to the Santa Cruz Operation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation>; (SCO) in 1995.[4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix#cite_note-4>; The UNIX trademark passed to The Open Group <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Group>, a neutral industry consortium founded in 1996, which allows the use of the mark for certified operating systems that comply with the Single UNIX Specification <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification>; (SUS). However, Novell continues to own the Unix copyrights, which the SCO Group, Inc. v. Novell, Inc. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Novell,_Inc.>; court case (2010) confirmed."
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