Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 07:09:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: MacOS X , FreeBSD, UNIX and kleenex Message-ID: <200205161409.HAA06888@eskimo.com>
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Lately, I have been reading a lot of the MacOS X literature that apple has on its own site. And it seems clear from pages like: http://www.apple.com/powermac/server/ that they have no problem proclaiming that there is UNIX underneathe their new OS. (quote) Mac OS X Server and Darwin, the UNIX-based core operating system, are based in part on FreeBSD and NetBSD, which are considered the most secure implementations of BSD ever developed. (/quote) And if you fish around for other quotes you find that the userland is pretty much FreeBSD 3.2 with an upgrade to 4.4 in the works for the next big release. Yet, I thought there was some trademark-y sort of issue about the BSD's officially using the UNIX brand name to describe themselves: http://www.ludd.luth.se/~ragge/htdocs/Misc/call-it-a-duck.html 1) have I misunderstood the UNIX versus UN*X branding/naming issue? 2) (if no) has apple bought itself a rubber stamp from the trademark holders? 3) (if yes) has apple bought the BSD-ers a rubber stamp as a side effect? -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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