From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] Windows Notepad to support Unix line endings
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 18:35:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfpGvdUa2M5-xJQY5wjTqij6UwkojGfJDMqxTw54JAa5Aw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ac8822b-e17b-4763-7d1c-3460a713183e@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
> wrote:
> Very well said Clem.
>
> Linux is not Unix.
> Linux is unix.
>
Linux is not UNIX.
According to the UNIX trademark guidelines, the second one is not
permitted... :)
Note the case difference.
>
> Linux does not have the licensing to claim to be a proper Unix (clone) and
> thus the privilege to use the uppercase "U". But (IMHO) Linux is very much
> in the unix spirit or idea.
>
There were a couple of very specific distributions of Linux that passed the
Unix licensing tests from the X/Open group years ago, but I don't know what
happened after that.
> Analogy: A Toyota Tacoma is not a Ford Ranger (Unix) but they are both
> pickup trucks (unix).
I was going to say that Linux is a UNIX-like operating system, but The Open
Group doesn't like that either :)
Warner
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-09 20:15 Robert Diamond
2018-05-09 21:54 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-09 21:57 ` David Arnold
2018-05-09 22:23 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-09 23:08 ` Nemo
2018-05-09 23:10 ` Nemo
2018-05-09 23:28 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-10 13:34 ` Nemo
2018-05-10 15:24 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-11 2:16 ` David Arnold
2018-05-11 2:21 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-09 22:30 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-09 22:54 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-10 21:09 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-10 21:21 ` arnold
2018-05-10 21:47 ` Harald Arnesen
2018-05-10 21:49 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-10 22:59 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-11 0:35 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2018-05-11 1:29 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-05-11 13:09 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-10 23:13 ` Wesley Parish
2018-05-09 22:41 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-05-10 0:32 Norman Wilson
2018-05-10 1:10 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-12 11:51 Rudi Blom
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