> Andrew Jorgensen wrote: >> Steve Meyers wrote: >>> I don't think anyone has mentioned the fact that Linux is NOT Unix, >>> at least not technically. It is a Unix clone. That's why Gnu's Not >>> Unix. >> >> >> Hmm, the fact that GNU's Not UNIX is an interesting point. That means >> that GNU/Linux isn't UNIX at all. Linux Users don't use UNIX! *BSD, >> HP-UX, Irix, SCO (shudder), etc. users /are/ UNIX users. All right, >> all you Linux users get out. This is a *BSD club. (I'm really, very >> much, kidding here. Please don't take me the least bit serious.) > > AT&T, owners of the UNIX trademark, haven't released a version of UNIX > since 1989. So technically, nobody uses UNIX anymore (if you do, have > you gotten GNOME to compile on it?). Everything is a UNIX clone or > derivative: Linux, *BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, SCO, OSX, Hurd, > Tru64, QNX, etc.
AT&T doesn't own UNIX anymore. SCO owns the code, and The Open Group http://www.unix.org owns the trademark. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
