From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 16 18: 6:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EF7937B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 18:06:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E3E43E7B for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 18:06:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C4DC7816C4; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:36:25 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:36:25 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Ian Moore Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix history Message-ID: <20021017010625.GB57421@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200210162209.37061.imoore@picknowl.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210162209.37061.imoore@picknowl.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 16 October 2002 at 22:09:36 +0930, Ian Moore wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if the commercial Unix variants are really unix 'clones' in > the same way that FBSD & Linux are, Well, that's an interesting claim. Linux and BSD are *very* different inside, though the user interface is similar. > or do/did they contain AT&T code? As far as I know, all commercial UNIX versions contain AT&T code. It's possible that things like Tru64 have removed it all. > They often seem to be refered to as Unix, but I assume that > (according the laywers) they are not unix anymore than FBSD is. No, according to the lawyers, anything which passes the UNIX standards compliance suite is UNIX. That includes Microsoft NT and IBM's OS/390. Technically, commercial UNIX is no more UNIX than FreeBSD, but that's mainly because of gratuitous differences. > If so, it's interesting that AT&T let so many companies copy their > software! Why? They paid dearly for the privilege. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message