From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 15: 2:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5644C3FB1; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 15:02:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ds.net (i1p68.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.68]) by s1.ds.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA22001; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 18:02:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <389765FD.72B791AD@ds.net> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 18:02:21 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Clifford Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD = Unix ??? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Clifford wrote: > > I think that the trademark is an important issue, but while Linux is build > to work like Unix, *BSD can actually trace its roots back to AT&T. It's > not a Unix workalike but is actually a Unix... except for the licensing > issues of the offical name. > And I say who cares? If a UNIX or UNIX-like OS existed which were entirely capable of doing a job and doing that job well, would you discard it because it couldn't trace it's official roots back to AT&T UNIX? That's just silly. As for BSD it has sufficient strengths that it's heritage isn't really all that important. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message