On Friday 28 August 2009 07:20:35 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: [snip] > and another aspect of Unix, which seems to have repeated > itself (or not?) with "unix-like" linux is the different flavours: > Solaris, BSD, AIX, Ultrix (now apparently known as HPUX). [snip]
These are legal issues not technical ones. There are two categories: licensed (from the unix license holders) unix, but who may not use unix(c) to describe their product eg AIX, HPUX (I worked for HP in the '80's and it was HPUX even then) and things that work just like (or even better) than unix but which do not derive from the source. eg minix, linux, bsd Long long ago unix was given away to educational institutions. I do not know how tainting with that affects current offerings. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
