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Re: Free system that could be "real Unix".
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John Paul Wallington |
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Re: Free system that could be "real Unix". |
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Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:29:00 +0100 |
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mike3 <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> writes:
> On Oct 12, 10:13 am, Christopher Browne <cbbro...@acm.org> wrote:
[...]
>> The *biggest* part would be the cost of having "whatever remains of
>> The Open Group" evaluate the system to validate that it conformed to
>> their requirements.
>>
>
> Well the thing I was asking more about was making a system
> that would be "real Unix" in the sense that it would be *capable
> of passing* such evaluations -- so it would be "real Unix" in all
> but the legal sense (ie. what you can market it as) (unless of
> course all the money needed to get certification was paid.).
Lasermoon Ltd., a UK company that was based in my home town, bought
membership of X/Open and obtained the necessary licenses with the
intention of passing POSIX.1, XPG4, et cetera, certification for their
Linux-FT distribution. They, or their technology, were bought by
Caldera in 1996. Dunno what happened to that standards effort in the
end.
- Free system that could be "real Unix"., mike3, 2007/10/10
- Re: Free system that could be "real Unix"., John Hasler, 2007/10/10
- Re: Free system that could be "real Unix"., mike3, 2007/10/11
- Re: Free system that could be "real Unix".,
John Paul Wallington <=
- Re: Free system that could be "real Unix"., Christopher Browne, 2007/10/14
- Re: Free system that could be "real Unix"., mike3, 2007/10/16
- Re: Free system that could be "real Unix"., Christopher Browne, 2007/10/16
- Re: Free system that could be "real Unix"., mike3, 2007/10/17
- Re: Free system that could be "real Unix"., John Hasler, 2007/10/17
- Re: Free system that could be "real Unix"., Stephane CHAZELAS, 2007/10/18
- Re: Free system that could be "real Unix"., mike3, 2007/10/17
Re: Free system that could be "real Unix"., Tim Smith, 2007/10/17