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

[Scott Dorsey]

Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>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.

Sorry, I had forgotten completely about the Open Group purchase.  I still
see the old Bell Labs headers every day though!
--scott
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