From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 17:42:15 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0FFF16A46B for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:42:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C2513C48E for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:42:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so188996rvb for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:42:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4sf+T+Il+/K2uck7WQ/rTs5sSd3ckQR98zZkuLgSgcU=; b=mdYoo8RaZYPMgVpT/RJP+ewg/72IFrltpFr7M4MnyIzc341ELpOs6BuT/COxup3J7Abb3SdLajP4r8bA43ML8oRzvaV1nmCP6UwV9Ig4vlsBl+jDJLZT4P1AHmAXZLiu5ArJV/8V4hMDKgT6j/+J3slnoW+8xQIIuizx9lsD/FI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kCR0XeK1J1UjLhZryZtRsaT1gXcg/W1aFdVX8WlHJeqLlYaIDASgGV4Kwl2HiRs7pudiNslJGnDLcuLcGqPQVyRiMzmOsGSSojVB5Lt2JRjq/9qjnJxUjfBYD3aqjK60k5TyhN57M0xNDKW1G2+5l+hJeLVCC/H8/s1wIBvkdsg= Received: by 10.140.191.14 with SMTP id o14mr462662rvf.1192729334599; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.2? ( [67.85.89.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z26sm1871141ele.2007.10.18.10.42.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47176229.50904@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:39:53 +0000 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071016) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" References: <20071018133421.B92952@prime.gushi.org> In-Reply-To: <20071018133421.B92952@prime.gushi.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:42:15 -0000 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > I recently noticed that Apple's new OS, Leopard, is Unix certified. "UNIX Certified" what the #@$#$@ does that mean as far I know no one is in a position to make such a statement except maybe the current owner of the Unix trademark (sco if I am not mistaken) > > I'd imagine that the big reason that FreeBSD hasn't done this yet is: > It costs a lot of money. And give SCO a reason to actually consolidate it's illegitimate claim to be the steward of Unix when there is no such thing beyond the holder of the trademark. > > > That said, if in theory one were to try to get the operating system > certified (say, to increase awareness and market share versus the > penguinistas)... > > a) approximately how much money is "a lot"? > > and > > b) How far short, technically, does FreeBSD fall from the standard > (we'll ignore operational semantics for the time being) MacOS-X is FreeBSD at it's core thus we are ready now (actually all that is required is POSIX complience)