Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:40:24 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> 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: <20071018184024.GB50522@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <47176229.50904@gmail.com> References: <20071018133421.B92952@prime.gushi.org> <47176229.50904@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:53PM +0000, 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) SCO has never owned the UNIX trademark. The current owner of is The Open Group, and they are indeed the ones that certify products as being officialy 'UNIX'. > > > > 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) MacOS X is partly based on FreeBSD, but they have also taken code from several other places, as well as made a whole lot of changes themselves. That MacOS X is UNIX-certifified says very little about how well FreeBSD will do in that regard. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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