Darren New wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> and "a unix OS" means "behaves like Unix", not
>> "has code from the original Unix".
> 
> Wouldn't most any POSIX-compliant OS fit this definition?

There's some interesting info about GNU's POSIX compliance.

By default, a few GNU tools deviate from POSIX, leaving a way to enable 
POSIX compliance. There was an environment variable called POSIX_ME_HARDER 
to make several GNU things follow the POSIX specification more closely. It 
was then renamed to POSIXLY_CORRECT.

"POSIXLY_CORRECT exists so we have an excuse to say that we still support 
the spec, if you define the environment variable. POSIX_ME_HARDER was the 
original way. Then a slightly prudish board member convinced me to change it 
to POSIXLY_CORRECT which I now think was a mistake. I should have left it as 
POSIX_ME_HARDER."
-- Richard Stallman

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