11 May
2018
11 May
'18
6:35 a.m.
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
wrote:
Very well said Clem.
Linux is not Unix.
Linux is unix.
Linux is not UNIX.
According to the UNIX trademark guidelines, the second one is not
permitted... :)
Note the case difference.
Linux does not have the licensing to claim to be a proper Unix (clone) and
thus the privilege to use the uppercase "U". But (IMHO) Linux is very much
in the unix spirit or idea.
There were a couple of very specific distributions of Linux that passed the
Unix licensing tests from the X/Open group years ago, but I don't know what
happened after that.
Analogy: A Toyota Tacoma is not a Ford Ranger (Unix)
but they are both
pickup trucks (unix).
I was going to say that Linux is a UNIX-like operating system, but The Open
Group doesn't like that either :)
Warner