19 Jan
2023
19 Jan
'23
8:42 p.m.
On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 15:56, Ralph Corderoy <ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
The fine article ends with
*Heh*
‘Which means that the last officially trademarked
commercial UNIX™ is
Apple's macOS 13, which underneath the proprietary GUI layer is mostly
an open source OS called Darwin anyway. The kernel, XNU, is based on
Mach with an in-kernel "Unix server" derived from FreeBSD...’
— https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/unix_is_dead/
Indeed it does. I wrote it. Thanks to Arnold for posting it.
I am getting some grief on Twitter too for "omitting" FreeBSD. I
didn't, but the BSDs don't fit either definition of "Unix". The
pre-1993 one being "based on AT&T code" -- after all, BSD (4.4 Lite r2
was it? Before my time!) -- went to a lot of effort to eliminate AT&T
code. The post-'93 definition, after Novell donated the trademark to
the Open Group, is "passed Open Group testing". Nobody has the time or
the inclination to pay, and indeed, why should they?
I hope to return to the subject of the BSDs in general on the Reg in future.
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