Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:41:26 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> Cc: James Clifford <james@base2.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD = Unix ??? Message-ID: <20000202144126.X55303@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <00ea01bf6d2f$87bc0540$0200000a@danco.home> References: <00ea01bf6d2f$87bc0540$0200000a@danco.home>
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On Tuesday, 1 February 2000 at 19:40:38 -0800, Dan O'Connor wrote: > On Tuesday, February 01, 2000 4:33 PM, James Clifford <james@base2.org> wrote: >> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: >>> >>> Unix its a trademark, and the owner righ now I think its Santa >>> Cruz Operation, and all the systems that wants to be called unix, >>> have to pay for the use of the name. >> >> *BSD can actually trace its roots back to AT&T. It's >> not a Unix workalike but is actually a Unix... > > To play Devil's Advocate here: Since 4.4BSD-Lite (and derivatives > like FreeBSD) has *no* AT&T code left in it, isn't it technically a > *work-alike clone* and not *real* Unix/unix/UNIX? > > If Microsoft gave you the source code to Windows and you re-wrote it > so that it no longer had any MS code in it, is it still Windows? I think this is all a matter of definition. But there's an easier way: it's try that there's no AT&T code in BSD, but it's definitely not true that there's no BSD code in UNIX System V.4. Without BSD code, System V would only be a partial operating system. Look at System V.3 for an example: no fast file system, no networking, no logging, no symlinks, no job control... Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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