Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 19:40:38 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> To: "James Clifford" <james@base2.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BSD = Unix ??? Message-ID: <00ea01bf6d2f$87bc0540$0200000a@danco.home>
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>*BSD can actually trace its roots back to AT&T. It's >not a Unix workalike but is actually a Unix... To play Devil's Advocate here: Since 4.4BSD-Lite (and derivatives like FreeBSD) has *no* AT&T code left in it, isn't it technically a *work-alike clone* and not *real* Unix/unix/UNIX? If Microsoft gave you the source code to Windows and you re-wrote it so that it no longer had any MS code in it, is it still Windows? --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! -----Original Message----- From: James Clifford <james@base2.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 4:33 PM Subject: RE: BSD = Unix ??? > >On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> 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 > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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