[geeks] Re: [rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Wed, 2001-09-05 at 19:58, Ken Hansen wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
> 
> > Personally, I think that claiming that Linux isn't unix is a very pathetic
> > and artificial distinction.  The only evidence that has been pointed out
> > to support this is lack of Unix98 certification and that it wasn't based
> > directly on either the BSD code or the AT&T code.
> 
> Well, the logic is simple - if it were based on either BSD or AT&T code it
> might be possible to "inherit" the certification, but with out a proper
> certification it is not Unix, it is Unix-like. A generic drug, reverse

Except that you can't even say that it's "Unix-Like", because The Open
Group doesn't like it.  ESR got a letter from them about this, because
he was calling Linux Unix-Like.  Now he just calls Unix Linux-like.
	Greg