[Info-vax] What is a "real" Unix ?

Dan Cross cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net
Mon Sep 4 14:16:54 EDT 2023


In article <ud4psi$bf5$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>[snip]
>If they are licensed by Lucent who owns the trademark, then yes.  If not,
>then not.  Lucent gets to decide.  If Lucent wants to license that trademark
>to VMS or to a washing machine, they can.  Then they would be Unix.  But
>Lucent has not licensed it to any Linux distributor.

Lucent does not own the Unix trade mark; that's the Open Group.
AT&T/Lucent/Bell Labs hasn't had anything to do with Unix since
the 1990s.

	- Dan C.




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