Re: FreeBSD's embedded agenda

From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy_at_optushome.com.au>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:21:55 +1000
On Thu, 2006-May-25 16:40:53 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote:
>>Make that UNIX-like or TOG will be on your back.  Another one of these
>>modern times 'achievements'.
>
>eh?  FreeBSD >is< (a) Unix.  (Linux is not.)

FreeBSD has not gone through the TOG hoops necessary to legally brand
itself as Unix.  Even in heritage terms, by the terms of the AT&T vs
UC lawsuit, Lite-2 (and hence FreeBSD) contains no AT&T code and is
therefore not Unix.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Received on Fri May 26 2006 - 05:22:00 UTC

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