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From: keelings@wl.aecl.ca (S. Keeling)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about Linux vs. FreeBSD...
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Date: 20 Dec 1995 15:35:28 -0600
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In article <Pine.BSD.3.91.951217122906.10281D-100000@village.ios.com>,
Eric Vought  <adfh@village.ios.com> wrote:
>> Without starting another flame war..but has someone PAID to have FreeBSD
>> approved as a *REAL* unix?  If not then it's in the same boat as Linux.=)
>
>Um... If it looks like UNIX, is compliant with UNIX standards (as much as 
>any other UNIX is `standard'), runs UNIX software, etc, who cares who has 
>approved it?

	Uhhhhh, AT&T?  USL?  Now SCO?  The owners of the name and
trademark "Unix"?  [And I agree: on this point, FreeBSD and Linux are
in the same boat.]

>After all, if it has a bill like a duck, lays eggs like a duck, and has 
>webbed feet like a duck... its a platypus!

	Which makes it _not_ Unix, but close enough, and inexpensive
enough for me to use it.

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 "Remember, obsolescence (Win95) isn't an accident;  it's an art form!" 
   keelings@wl.aecl.ca       s. keeling,   aecl - whiteshell labs