Subject: Re: What is *BSD? -- was: Re: Samba(and OSX off topic?)
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/20/2001 23:42:14
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:23:18PM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> More particularly these days, NetBSD is not Unix(tm) until it conforms to
> the Single Unix Specification(tm) and is certified as such by The Open
> Group(tm) [what an ironic name...].

They want a not-insignificant amount of money for said
certification, do they not? (And they keep changing the damn
guidelines...)

Fwiw (to the general populace, I'm sure Todd knows better than I),
last I heard neither Sun Solaris nor Digital^WOpen^WTru64 Unix
complied to this either. Yet, I suppose.

> *Officially*, both now derive from 4.4BSD-Lite2, because some of the sour=
ce
> code in 4.3BSD NET/2 had the questionable AT&T copyright status.  Said co=
de
> was pulled from circulation to satisfy the relevant legal proceedings, and
> now everyone's happy.

Fair enough. Whatever keeps the lawyers happy. But that didn't feed
in 'til around March 1994, right?

> Heh.  But if you look closely enough, you can still see it in the fringes.
> (Mmm, remembering Minix for the Amiga....)

Aww... and I only remember Minix on an 386 laptop. (And that far
after such was exactly necessary.)

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