Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:02:12 -0700 From: "Jack Velte" <jackv@earthling.net> To: <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "Linux is UNIX, and FreeBSD is not?" Message-ID: <01bd8ffc$0bac1740$f820aace@eliot.pacbell.net>
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is anyone working on this issue? did i hear someone volunteer jordan? uh. would someone else like to work on it? -jack >Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want >www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." > >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. >> >>Regards >> Oliver >> >>[*1] http://www.UNIX-systems.org/what_is_unix.html >> and in particular: >> http://www.UNIX-systems.org/what_is_unix/flavors_of_unix.html >> >>-- >>Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany >>(Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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