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From: beattie@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Brian Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is *BSD Unix? (was: Re: Is FreeBSD free?)
Date: 4 Dec 1994 13:32:05 -0800
Organization: CS Outreach Services, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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Message-ID: <3btcgl$4ko@CSOS.ORST.EDU>
References: <1994Dec2.034142.18344@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <3bn21t$qn6@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <1994Dec3.084230.18858@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> <3bqj94$f6k@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
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In article <3bqj94$f6k@orion.cc.andrews.edu>,
Andrew Gillham <gillham@andrews.edu> wrote:
>In article <1994Dec3.084230.18858@durie.wanganui.gen.nz> liam@durie.wanganui.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood) writes:
>>
>>Andrew Gillham (gillham@andrews.edu) wrote:
>>
>>> Linux Is Not UniX
...
>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".
>
Futhermore nothing since Version 7 is *real unix*.
Yes I know tha USL holds the copyright but that is like trying to
legislate pi=3.0. Just cause a judge say so don't make it so.
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