BSD isn’t Unix. It’s fairest to say it is a Unix. Unix was built in Murray Hill and maintained by a succession of corporations and now sits locked in a safe at a company where they will never have the clue or interest to maintain or distribute it, thanks to IBM. Everything else is just sparkling multics.
(Source: was on the periphery, know the people who know where the bodies are)
And it’s neat to see how well IBM killed the competition who dared to cry code-rape.
No, Linux is not UNIX. It is UNIX like. MacOS is UNIX, based on a BSD system.
BSD isn’t Unix. It’s fairest to say it is a Unix. Unix was built in Murray Hill and maintained by a succession of corporations and now sits locked in a safe at a company where they will never have the clue or interest to maintain or distribute it, thanks to IBM. Everything else is just sparkling multics.
(Source: was on the periphery, know the people who know where the bodies are)
And it’s neat to see how well IBM killed the competition who dared to cry code-rape.
Linux could be unix if someone wanted to pay to have it certified. It’s meaningless.