[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00cf0d85$0$1490$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> But AIX is also loosing out to Linux.
> 
> Does anyone really believe that Linux isn't a Unix ?

What you believe is irrelevant.  Linux is not Unix.
Its creator said so and went to a lot of trouble to
have the owners of Unix agree with him.  Linux is Linux.
Or are you also going to argue that Xinu is Unix and Minix
is Unix, too.

> 
> 
> 
> Was Digital's Ultrix considered a Unix even though it wasn't "Unix"
> compliant ?

Compliance has nothing to do with it.  Both Ultrix-11 and Ultrix-32
were derived from AT&T Unix source code and paid license fees to
AT&T for that right.  That, and not compliance makes them Unix.

> 
> There have been plenty of OS around that looked like, smelled like and
> behaved link "Unix" despite being unable to call themselves "Unix" due
> to various copyright issues.
> 
> Sorry folks, But Linux is just another Unix to me.  

That is another matter entirely.  Is the question "Is Linux Unix?"
or is it "Can I consider Linux to be Unix?"

>                                                     It has a Unix user
> interface, unix commands etc.

I worked on a version of Xenix that had a MSDOS user interface.  it
also ran PC programs lime Multiplan.  Was it Unix or MSDOS?

> 
> On tha Basis, Unix is doing very fine thank you.

With or without copnsidering Linux to be Unix, Unix is still doing
just fine.  And it has a better future onthe horizon than some other
OSes we could mention. 

> 
> 
> And Arne, you may dimiss Apple because of laptops etc (you forgot the
> iphone and ipod touch which also run unix), but don't dismiss their
> servers. They have had some rankings in some of the supercomputer
> listings a number of times.

Yeah, funny that.  based on the fact (as pointed out here recently)
that OS-X is really just FreeBSD, imagine what BSD could do if it
had the marketing that Linux gets.

bill

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