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From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is *BSD Unix? (was: Re: Is FreeBSD free?)
Date: 3 Dec 1994 20:09:08 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
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In article <1994Dec3.084230.18858@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> liam@durie.wanganui.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood) writes:
>
>Andrew Gillham (gillham@andrews.edu) wrote:
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>> Linux Is Not UniX
>
>This is true.  Are any of the freely distributable BSD based 
>systems Unix?  The manner in which you put the comment caused
>me to think you were infering that FreeBSD _was_ Unix, whereas

Apologies to those who had too much caffiene... :-)
I am an incurable smart-ass, so my comment was a lame attempt
at the double-meaning.. (how do you spell that phrase?)

For those that didn't get it:
Linux Is Not UniX
L inux  I s  N ot  U ni X
L       I    N     U    X
LINUX

Ok??? 

No, Linux isn't Unix, FreeBSD isn't, NetBSD isn't.. none of them
claim to be or *WANT* to be *real unix* they are "unix-like".


-Andrew

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