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With all due respect..

WHO CARES?

Freebsd is a great OS, who cares if its called a Unix, a Un*x, a fake
unix, a unix-like OS, a bsd-like unix, etc.

If it works great, what difference does it make whats called? OK so if
UNIX is a trademark of OpenGroup, dont call it Unix..

Can we please end this thread now? It doesnt even belong in
freebsd-stable.. 

Y

Chad R. Larson wrote:
> 
> 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
> --
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