There is a Free Unix, its called Free BSD but due to legal reasons they can't call it Unix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2015 10:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Having the mainframe on YouTube On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:24:00 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: >Tom Marchant wrote: >>Unix is not free software. > >UNIX=AE is sometimes free, at least in the colloquial sense of the >word. Mac OS X, for example, is UNIX=AE (and Open Group certified), and >it's available free of charge from Apple to everyone who has a >compatible Macintosh computer. Mac OS X upgrades may be obtained without an upgrade charge, but to go from that to claim that Unix is free stretches credulity. The only way you can get an OS X upgrade is if you have already purchased a license to the operating system with a computer. And you cannot legally install it on any other computer. Aside from that, the free software movement is not about price, but freedom. In English, the word "Free" has different meanings. One of those has to do with cost. Another is about freedom. As Richard Stallman puts it, it is “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”. Unix is not free in either sense. Neither is Mac OSX. https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html https://www.fsf.org/ -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
