Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Well, Linux is a kernel; what you download in distros is GNU/Linux, and GNU 
> *stands* for "GNU is Not Unix" :)

  "This name was chosen because GNU's design is Unix-like, but differs from
Unix by being free software and containing no Unix code."

  Well, I suppose you *could* define "a Unix operating system" as
"proprietary operating system containing code from the original OS
named 'Unix'". However, that's not what the vast majority of people
*mean* when they use the term "unix". Being free or proprietary has
nothing to do with it, and "a unix OS" means "behaves like Unix", not
"has code from the original Unix".

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                                                          - Warp

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