On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Tom Marchant <[email protected]>wrote:
> I guess you weren't paying attention to what you were replying to. > Shmuel's comment was about Linux being certified as Unix. It has > absolutely nothing to do with z/Enterprise architecture. > Ah. I actually was paying attention, but until you just said the above, it wasn't clear until now, even rereading the thread. PaulG asked whether Linux was being downplayed, and the response was "There are legal issues preventing Linux from being certified". Since Linux is explicitly NOT a flavor of UNIX, but rather a UNIX-like OS, it never occurred to me that this was referring to certification -- I assumed it was responding to his question and saying that Linux could not be certified by IBM to run on zBX. Now, of course, it all makes sense. Mea culpa. Are there really efforts to certify Linux as UNIX? The Open Group seems to list Linux and UNIX separately. >P.S. Let's not have the top/bottom posting wars again. Your failure to follow the discussion is a good example of why > top posting is not good in a forum such as this. I leave it as > an exercise for the reader to make sense of the history that > you have isolated below > Different mail clients, different readability; posting style isn't the issue. In this note I'm not top-posting because I'm responding to your separate points. Note that the original NOT-top-posting didn't magically make it clear what was being said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
