mike3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Oct 12, 10:13 am, Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> The *biggest* part would be the cost of having "whatever remains of >> The Open Group" evaluate the system to validate that it conformed to >> their requirements. >> > > Well the thing I was asking more about was making a system > that would be "real Unix" in the sense that it would be *capable > of passing* such evaluations -- so it would be "real Unix" in all > but the legal sense (ie. what you can market it as) (unless of > course all the money needed to get certification was paid.).
Lasermoon Ltd., a UK company that was based in my home town, bought membership of X/Open and obtained the necessary licenses with the intention of passing POSIX.1, XPG4, et cetera, certification for their Linux-FT distribution. They, or their technology, were bought by Caldera in 1996. Dunno what happened to that standards effort in the end. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
