From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 16:45:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.cybersurf.net (smtp2.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.112]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5603F9D for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 16:45:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from webserver ([209.197.156.54]) by smtp2.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with SMTP id FPA23500.J1X; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:45:05 -0700 Message-ID: <010f01bf6d16$f13a4860$369cc5d1@webserver> From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: "Alejandro Ramirez" , Subject: Re: BSD = Unix ??? Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:41:00 -0700 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 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, February 01, 2000 12:50 PM Alejandro Ramirez wrote: > Unix its a trademark, and the owner righ now I think its Santa Cruz >Operation, and all the systems that wants to be called unix, have to pay for >the use of the name. > >Greetings... >Ales > >----- Original Message ----- >From: J McKitrick >To: >Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 1:36 PM >Subject: BSD = Unix ??? > > >> I just read Greg's article on BSD advocacy. Just a question: Linux is >> actually a Unix clone. Can BSD be called Unix? Or are we just Unix >> compatible, or Unix-based? >> -- >> -=> jm <=- Putting aside politics, copyrights etc., can BSD rightly be called Unix? So my question then begs another: What are the ``core'' characteristics identifying an OS as Unix? How does BSD deviate from these? -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message