From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 25 20:41:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B0714DFC for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:41:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11606; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:40:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199902260440.VAA11606@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD [3.1] is Unix ??? (Was: Re: 3.1 Release splash image) In-Reply-To: <199902252308.RAA22574@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> from Igor Roshchin at "Feb 25, 99 05:08:25 pm" To: igor@physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:40:33 -0700 (MST) Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Igor Roshchin wrote: > It's rather the question of definitions. > (And you are right - the definitions are given by the owners of the trademark) > > I know what FreeBSD is, and I refer to it as "Unix" between my > friends/colleagues and myself. However, if technically speaking it > is not Unix (TM) according to the current definition, - > it should not be called that way either on the official web-page, or > on the logo-s. > > Igor Any idea what would be involved in getting to be "Real UNIX"? I mean, besides the obvious license fee to X/Open. Is there some validation suite that would have to be passed? How close are we? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message