On Jul 15, 9:08 am, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 July 2011 08:53, Vince O'Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Stuck" with unix? This is wrong on several levels. > > - Linux isn't technically Unix, the heart of the fated SCO patent trolling > was that OS wasn't paying to be licensed as such > > - Even acknowledging that Linux is unix-like, or unix-inspired, unix is best > described as a family of operating systems, linked more by their > functionality than by a common codebase > > - What you think of as Unix probably isn't Unix, just consider what's > possible with cygwin... Bash isn't unix, nor is X, or Gnome, or KDE, or the > android GUI, or Apple's quartz
It's all Unix under the skin, from gnu upwards. In the same way that all PCs are Windows even though Microsoft don't make hardware. I acknowledge that the real picture is more complex but where would the world be if we weren't able to make sweeping generalities now and again. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
