15 Mar
2024
15 Mar
'24
2:13 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 02:38:03PM -0400, Stuff Received wrote:
On 2024-03-13 23:40, Steve Nickolas wrote:
People here might enjoy this first hand account of making MacOS fit
for the certification:
https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix-compliant-cert…
2 representive quotes:
"I was the tech lead at Apple for making Mac OS X pass UNIX
certification, and it was done to get Apple out of a $200M lawsuit
filed by The Open Group, for use of the UNIX™ trademark in
advertising.
The lawsuit was filed because the owner of Mac OS X Server kept
putting “UNIX” on the web site, and all other marketing collateral for
the Server product."
"If I were asked to do the same thing for Linux, it likely would take
five years, and two dozen people.
Linux is pretty balkanize, has a lot of kingdom building, and you have
to pee on everything to make it smell like Linux.
I could do the same in FreeBSD in about a year and a half, with a
dozen co-conspirators to run the changes through."
--
Kind regards,
Daniel
On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, Marc Rochkind wrote:
Not quite -- they do to pass the Single Unix Spec tests.
Don't know the answer to your question, but
last I knew the
trademark (not
the copyright) was transferred to The Open Group. They came up with a set
of rules for what UNIX is and, as I understand it, for example, Linux is
not a UNIX-like system, it is a UNIX system. (The Open Group isn't
interested in implementations of the UNIX standard, only the standard
itself.)
Only those distros that paid them for the right to be called such.