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Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> Actually, Mac OSX, AIX, and Solaris are a few examples of systems that
>> are UNIX as defined by The Open Group, who owns the trademark.
>
> So it's mainly a question of money?
>
> I don't think money is a good argument on the question of whether Linux
> is Unix or not.
Given the ones that *are* on the list, I would think it's more along the
lines that none of the code in Linux was ever in UNIX. It's a completely new
codebase that happens to do the same thing. I.e., Linux isn't UNIX just
like DR-DOS isn't MS-DOS and OS/2 isn't Windows.
It's the color of the bits.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
I get "focus follows gaze"?
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