Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:39:53 +0000 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification. Message-ID: <47176229.50904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071018133421.B92952@prime.gushi.org> References: <20071018133421.B92952@prime.gushi.org>
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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)
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