Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 11:45:40 +0400 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com>, current@freebsd.org, small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's embedded agenda Message-ID: <20060526074540.GB47499@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <20060526072155.GA744@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <1148585364.447605943e3e1@imp2-g19.free.fr> <4784.1148586952@critter.freebsd.dk> <20060525200846.GA2796@freebie.xs4all.nl> <EA46571D-DE93-4304-A1CB-3B2CD1E849BC@netgate.com> <20060526072155.GA744@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 05:21:55PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Thu, 2006-May-25 16:40:53 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote: > >>Make that UNIX-like or TOG will be on your back. Another one of these > >>modern times 'achievements'. > > > >eh? FreeBSD >is< (a) Unix. (Linux is not.) > > FreeBSD has not gone through the TOG hoops necessary to legally brand > itself as Unix. Even in heritage terms, by the terms of the AT&T vs > UC lawsuit, Lite-2 (and hence FreeBSD) contains no AT&T code and is > therefore not Unix. Let's say that *BSD have outgrown Unix while Linux has never grown into it. So we'll at once a) hint the audience at our noble roots, b) pretend we aren't limited by design decisions from the Iron Age of computing, and c) taunt Linux ;-) -- Yar
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