Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:23:30 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net> Cc: J McKitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD = Unix ??? Message-ID: <20000201122329.T24609@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <389737C2.4FFFD902@ds.net>; from jmutter@ds.net on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 02:45:06PM -0500 References: <20000201193639.A6007@freebsd-uk.eu.org> <389737C2.4FFFD902@ds.net>
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* James A. Mutter <jmutter@ds.net> [000201 12:15] wrote: > 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... And at the same time careful to remeber what the name Unix promises. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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