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Date:      Tue, 01 Feb 2000 14:45:06 -0500
From:      "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net>
To:        J McKitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD = Unix ???
Message-ID:  <389737C2.4FFFD902@ds.net>
References:  <20000201193639.A6007@freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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J McKitrick wrote:
> 
> I just read Greg's article on BSD advocacy.  Just a question: Linux is
> actually a Unix clone.  Can BSD be called Unix?  Or are we just Unix
> compatible, or Unix-based?
> --

I think that in this day and age it's fair to say that if it looks like
UNIX, walks like UNIX and talk like UNIX that it is certainly UNIX.  We
need to be careful not to get caught up in something as silly as a
name...


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