[PLUG] Linux = Unix?

[Sean Whitney]

It still tickles me that the Unix Behemoth created by ATT is now owned by a 
small linux company Caldera...  Who is releasing some of the code open source.


http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/02/28/caldera.html

Sean

On Thursday 14 November 2002 13:52 pm, you wrote:
> Scott VanHoosen wrote:
> > Does that mean that only AT&T's *nix is Unix? Are the various flavors
> > of BSD, HP-UX and Solaris not Unix then?
>
> HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, SCO OpenServer and UnixWare are all derived various
> System V codebases, so they are in fact "UNIX" by this definition.  They
>   also pay a nice license fee to use the term "UNIX" to whomever owns
> the trademark now (SCO, I think).
>
> BSD is another story, you can read up on it at the BSD Complete FAQ, at
> http://nakedape.cc/info/bsd-complete.faq.html#0.1
>
> Wil