From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jun 4 17:28:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17783 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:28:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17680 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:27:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id JAA02160; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 09:57:31 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980605095731.P768@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 09:57:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jack Velte , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Linux is UNIX, and FreeBSD is not?" References: <01bd8ffc$0bac1740$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <01bd8ffc$0bac1740$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net>; from Jack Velte on Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 02:02:12PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message