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From: robert@slip.cc.uq.oz.au (Robert Brockway)
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: 22 Dec 1995 10:26:36 GMT
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: > : Well, there is this matter of FreeBSD being a *real* UNIX where Linux is
: > : not.
: > :
: > 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? If the tool works, use it.
thats the point he was trying to make, IMHO. Both FreeBSD and Linux are
near posix complient. so they can both be called Unix (in a non legal sense)
since neither have been through the offical approval process (which is
costly),
: (well, that's not completely valid I suppose. If Bill Gates approved it,
: I'd delete it.)
agreed :-)
: 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!
Cute critters :-)
-Robert
--Robert Brockway, email: ec531667@student.uq.edu.au
WWW: http://student.uq.edu.au/~ec531667
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