From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 18:35:40 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Windows Notepad to support Unix line endings In-Reply-To: <8ac8822b-e17b-4763-7d1c-3460a713183e@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> References: <88495996-4947-4DAD-962F-62022DF76FED@robdiamond.com> <8e31213a-4741-a7d7-f102-526658251ade@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <8ac8822b-e17b-4763-7d1c-3460a713183e@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> Message-ID: On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: