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

[Dan Cross]

In article <ud5erl$bkp$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>>In article <ud4psi$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!

Open Group didn't purchase the trademark; I think perhaps you
mean Novell?  Novell transfered the rights to the "Unix"
trademark to X/Open, which merged with OSF to form the Open
Group a couple of years later.

A relatively short explanation of the timeline is here:
https://unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html

	- Dan C.