Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on "The FourFreedoms"

[Alexander Terekhov]

Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:02:05 +0200
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Uh, what?  The quoted section tries defining the term "UNIX", not the
> > term "operating system".
>
> Notice the qualification 

[... ITS blah-blah ...]

> Both quotes indicate that already in the early 80s, "operating system"
> had a broader meaning than merely the "kernel".

http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html
(aka Single UNIX Specification)

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POSIX is an acronym for Portable Operating System Interface.
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Although originated to refer to the original IEEE Std 1003.1-1988, the 
         ^^^^^^^^^^                                        ^

[note that Shell and Utilities is .2]

name POSIX more correctly refers to a family of related standards: IEEE 
Std 1003.n (where n is a number) and the parts of ISO/IEC 9945. The term 
POSIX was originally used as a synonym for IEEE Std 1003.1-1988. A 
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

preferred term for that standard, POSIX.1, emerged. This maintained the 
advantages of readability of the symbol ``POSIX'' without being ambiguous 
with the POSIX family of standards.

For a full listing of the project numbers see PASC Standing Document SD11.

The name POSIX was suggested by Richard Stallman. 
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVS

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First released in 1974, MVS was later renamed by IBM, first to MVS/XA 
(eXtended Architecture), next to MVS/ESA (Enterprise Systems 
Architecture), then to OS/390 when UNIX System Services (USS) 
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

were added, and finally to z/OS when 64-bit support was added on the 
zSeries models. Its core remains fundamentally the same operating 
system. By design, programs written for MVS can still run on z/OS 
without modification.
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http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3470.htm

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UNIX 95

    Company Name: IBM Corporation

    Product Name: z/OS V1R2 or later with: Security Server and z/OS 
    V1R2 or later C/C++ Compiler on IBM zSeries Processors that 
    support z/OS Version 1 Release 2 or later
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And regarding [Guh-NÜ-slash-]Linux, POSIX.1 is basically kernel+[g]libc.

regards,
alexander.