James Hewitt wrote: > There's also a good legal reason for it. 'UNIX' is trademarked, and > the major vendors have to license it and the codebase (SVR4 plus some > BSD stuff). Neither Linux nor the various 'free' BSDs can call > themselves UNIX because of this (and they have their own, separate > codebases). People sometimes say un*x because even using the term > UNIX might violate the trademark in some circumstances.
On this topic, has everyone heard the news that Caldera has released Version 7 and 32V under a "BSD-style" license? This makes all the formerly-encumbered code like 2.11BSD and 4.3BSD free as well. As for the trademark, look at http://www.opengroup.org/trademarks.htm. IBM mainframes are legally UNIX systems, but Version 7 is not. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
