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

[Alexander Terekhov]

Correction...

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> 
> 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)
> 
> -----
> 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]
                                    ^^

Err. -3. After XBD (Base Definitions) + XSH (System Interfaces) and
prior to (non-normative) Rationale (-4) volume of POSIX.1.

> 
> 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
> 
> ------
> 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.
> ------
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3470.htm
> 
> ------
> 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
> ------
> 
> And regarding [Guh-NÜ-slash-]Linux, POSIX.1 is basically kernel+[g]libc.

Apart from shell and utilities, that is.

regards,
alexander.