From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jun 4 14:08:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08000 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-gw.pacbell.net (mail-gw.pacbell.net [206.13.28.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07753 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:07:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackv@earthling.net) Received: from eliot.pacbell.net (ppp-206-170-32-159.snfc21.pacbell.net [206.170.32.159]) by mail-gw.pacbell.net (8.8.8/8.7.1+antispam) with SMTP id OAA07702 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:07:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jack Velte" To: Subject: Re: "Linux is UNIX, and FreeBSD is not?" Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:02:12 -0700 Message-ID: <01bd8ffc$0bac1740$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG is anyone working on this issue? did i hear someone volunteer jordan? uh. would someone else like to work on it? -jack >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