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No current open source *BSD is anymore UNIX than Linux is.
by zokula 10y ago
No current open source *BSD is anymore UNIX than Linux is.
- pjmlp 10y agoI doubt the BSD developers that are part of BSD since the days before the lawsuit will agree with you.
- AsyncAwait 10y agoThey may not, but there's so little original UNIX code in *BSD these days that it does not matter, in fact that's one of the main reasons they won the lawsuit in the first place.
- lisivka 10y agoI just opened my Red Book and reread «Short history of UNIX». Berkley University bought license for AT&T UNIX[1] in 1977. They started to develop their own software for UNIX and distribute it, so this variant of UNIX is called BSD. Then they decide to remove and rewrite original AT&T code, due to license and associated costs, and released 4.3BSD[2], which then used by BSD flavors. So BSD is UNIX, but it contains no AT&T code today. [1] http://www.nordier.com/v7x86/index.html http://www.nordier.com/v7x86/index.html [2] https://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/category/4-3-bsd/ https://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/category/4-3-bs...
- AsyncAwait 10y agoYes, my point is that since *BSD does not contain the original UNIX code anymore, it is no more UNIX than Linux is, since it was basically rewritten from scratch.
- lisivka 10y agoI understands your point but it's wrong because UNIX is system, not a single component. UNIX was generic name until it trademarked. See books, see complete code: http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl . As you can see, BSD UNIX still contains lot of code from BSD UNIX.