Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:11:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Linux is UNIX, and FreeBSD is not?" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980604101051.17905A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <199806041128.NAA20861@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Who cares? We still have the better OS. Names are nothing in this game to techies - and they are the ones in most cases making decisions. -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Oliver Fromme wrote: >As we probably all know, neither FreeBSD nor Linux can be >legally called a "UNIX system" [*1]. However, this might >change in the future, as far as Linux is concerned: > > http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/980529/uniforum_a_2.html > >That article essentially says that there are efforts -- >supported by The Open Group -- to get Linux the "UNIX98" >brand. > >>From a technical point of view, I'd say that FreeBSD is >certainly more "unixish" than Linux, given the fact that it >is derived from 4.4BSD, while Linux is basically a complete >rewrite (and besides: it is GNU, and "GNU's Not UNIX" ;-). >Needless to say, I'm worried that one day Linux can be >legally called a UNIX system, while FreeBSD (still) cannot. > >Regards > Oliver > >[*1] http://www.UNIX-systems.org/what_is_unix.html > and in particular: > http://www.UNIX-systems.org/what_is_unix/flavors_of_unix.html > >-- >Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany >(Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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