[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

[wa2egp at att.net]

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From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
>
> Robert Brooke Gravitt wrote:
> > On Jul 8, 2009, at 9:16 PM, wa2egp at att.net wrote:
> > 
> >> IIRC from the latest ad I scanned a few minutes ago, it said Mac OS  
> >> was BASED
> >> on UNIX.
> >> (emphasis mine)
> >>
> >> Bob
> > 
> > No, it was certified as UNIX by the Open Group and is allowed to use  
> > the trademark. IIRC, this discussion has crept up a few times on this  
> > list; there's considerable debate here as to what constitutes UNIX.
> 
> Honestly, as far as I'm concerned, if it looks like a duck, walks like a
> duck, quacks like a duck, and runs sysvinit like a duck, for all
> practical purposes it's a duck.  I don't give a flying rat turd whether
> or not its creators paid danegeld to the current owner of the Duck
> trademark.

Oh really?!  Actually I agree.  Or to put it even more succinctly:  As long as it f**king works!

Bob