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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Is *BSD Unix? (was: Re: Is FreeBSD free?) Date: 04 Dec 1994 00:18:38 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 27 Message-ID: <JKH.94Dec4001838@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <1994Dec2.034142.18344@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <3bn21t$qn6@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <1994Dec3.084230.18858@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: liam@durie.wanganui.gen.nz's message of Sat, 3 Dec 1994 08:42:30 GMT In article <1994Dec3.084230.18858@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> liam@durie.wanganui.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood) writes: This is true. Are any of the freely distributable BSD based systems Unix? The manner in which you put the comment caused No. There have been occasional claims to the contrary, either implictly due to ignorance or typos that neglected to spell "UNIX" in the more time honored "UN*X" to denote "UNIX-like", or explictly by people who don't really know what the hell "UNIX" means these days. To call yourself UNIX requires a brand by X/Open. This brand not only requires strict adherence to a set of "standards" but also costs a significant chunk of change (around $10,000 last I checked). None of the "Free UN*X's" are going to be going down this route anytime soon, to my knowledge anyway. I don't think that an X/Open brand would buy us a lot with our current user base(s), and for the corporate arena for whom it *would* matter, we'd need to provide a lot more than the brand to make it truly attractive to them. All cost items, and we don't have any money! :-) Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Clams are your friends