Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 04:18:02 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Message-ID: <00cd01c162cf$40a82c00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <008b01c162cb$502771d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Anthony >Atkielski > >> The command-line Windows UI is not used by 99.999% >> of all Windows programs out there ... > >Rather like the X Windows interface in UNIX, in other words. > X is certainly required for Netscape and based on the recent bitching on this list about it I think that quite a lot of FreeBSD users must be running it. > >I'm referring to the OS, not the trademark, but thanks for the information (I >have often wondered why so many systems that are obviously UNIX are not so >called). > >So is Solaris a UNIX system in this restricted legal sense? > yes, Sun has not only paid whatever fee that TOG is demanding, they have also met TOG's requirements for branding. (last I checked one of the requirements was for licensed Java to be in the UNIX system, thus as you see TOG has requirements for UNIX branding that cannot be met by any open source UNIX) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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