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Date:      Fri, 5 Jun 1998 09:57:31 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jack Velte <jackv@earthling.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "Linux is UNIX, and FreeBSD is not?"
Message-ID:  <19980605095731.P768@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <01bd8ffc$0bac1740$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net>; from Jack Velte on Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 02:02:12PM -0700
References:  <01bd8ffc$0bac1740$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net>

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On Thu,  4 June 1998 at 14:02:12 -0700, Jack Velte wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>>
>>> As we probably all know, neither FreeBSD nor Linux can be
>>> legally called a "UNIX system" [*1].  However, this might
>>> change in the future, as far as Linux is concerned:
>>>
>>>   http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/980529/uniforum_a_2.html
>>>
>>> That article essentially says that there are efforts --
>>> supported by The Open Group -- to get Linux the "UNIX98"
>>> brand.
>>>
>>>> From a technical point of view, I'd say that FreeBSD is
>>> certainly more "unixish" than Linux, given the fact that it
>>> is derived from 4.4BSD, while Linux is basically a complete
>>> rewrite (and besides: it is GNU, and "GNU's Not UNIX" ;-).
>>> Needless to say, I'm worried that one day Linux can be
>>> legally called a UNIX system, while FreeBSD (still) cannot.
>
> is anyone working on this issue?  did i hear someone
> volunteer jordan?  uh.  would someone else like to
> work on it?

We discussed this a while back.  We decided that UNIX 98% validation
was counterproductive.

Greg
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