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SCO lost a lawsuit because all claims brought in the suit were entirely baseless.
by cestith 10y ago
SCO lost a lawsuit because all claims brought in the suit were entirely baseless.
- ksk 10y agoThat literally has nothing to do with my point. UNIX was a closed source proprietary system, and so was VMS.
- cestith 10y agoIf you look at the commit history, the BSDs are very much derived from AT&T Unix.
- ksk 10y agoSorry, I don't know what your point is. My initial comment was a response to the snarky "proprietary systems suck" comment, saying that UNIX itself was a proprietary design.
- cestith 10y agoThe original tiny Version 1 through Version 6 system may have been more or less proprietary (although provided with source for comparatively little money) but the Unix ecosystem hasn't been proprietary for a very long time. Many of the commands people think of today came not from AT&T at all, but from Berkeley. Even as the commercial Unix platforms split, flourished, and fell apart keeping their own source more or less private Ultrix, Solaris, Irix, AIX, SCO, SunOS, OSF/1, HP/UX, Digital Unix, and others were more or less "Unix" with a few caveats about compatibility. POSIX and the SUS were formed. Systems got certified. Then the GNU tools were written and Linux became their kernel. Then, the Berkeley vs. AT&T lawsuit ended and we got the explosion of open source BSDs - NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Midnight BSD, DragonflyBSD... So yes, technically the original AT&T Unix was proprietary. That's not all there is to Unix nor has it been for decades. There is no Single VMS Specification. There are no independent systems certified as VMS compliant. You run what DEC / Compaq / HP / VMS Systems supplies and you like it or you don't. There is no Single Windows Specification. You take what Microsoft gives you or not. Unix is an open standard.