Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:00:29 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification. Message-ID: <47179F3D.70205@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <47176229.50904@gmail.com> References: <20071018133421.B92952@prime.gushi.org> <47176229.50904@gmail.com>
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > 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. Apparently The Open Group are in charge of UNIX certification - see http://www.opengroup.org/certification/ for details. -- Bruce > > 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) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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