From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jun 5 16:08:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07294 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 16:08:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lituussun (mail.ladapt.org [195.25.51.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA07250 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 16:08:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@smtp.wanadoo.fr) Received: from (sequoia.lituus.fr) [193.252.217.31] by lituussun with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0yi6UK-0001Kq-00; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 01:05:39 +0100 Received: (from root@localhost) by sequoia.lituus.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA00928; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 01:04:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 01:04:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199806052304.BAA00928@sequoia.lituus.fr> From: Stephane Legrand MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Linux is UNIX, and FreeBSD is not?" In-Reply-To: <19980605095731.P768@freebie.lemis.com> References: <01bd8ffc$0bac1740$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net> <19980605095731.P768@freebie.lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey writes: > On Thu, 4 June 1998 at 14:02:12 -0700, Jack Velte wrote: > >> 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. > > > > is anyone working on this issue? did i hear someone > > volunteer jordan? uh. would someone else like to > > work on it? > > We discussed this a while back. We decided that UNIX 98% validation > was counterproductive. > But if Linux finally get this validation, could/should this decision be reconsidered ? And did FreeBSD (stable and/or current) have a good chance to obtain this kind of validation in a technical point of view ? Stephane Legrand. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message