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Um... what Unix (tm) product does Apple sell. They stopped selling A/UX decades ago and it's a bit of a stretch to call AIX Unix. And Mach is absolutely NOT U
by retrocryptid 3y ago
Um... what Unix (tm) product does Apple sell. They stopped selling A/UX decades ago and it's a bit of a stretch to call AIX Unix. And Mach is absolutely NOT Unix.
Saying that Apple is a Unix vendor because of Mach/Darwin/NeXTStep and Android/Google, Red Hat/IBM, Ubuntu/Canonical, Amazon/Amazon Linux aren't Unix vendors because they're Linux is an interesting take.
By that logic we could call MSFT a Unix vendor 'cause they once sold Xenix and NT originally shipped with BSD networking code.
- ChickeNES 3y agoIt very much is: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
- retrocryptid 3y agoThis means that Apple has licensed the right to use the Unix(r) trademark, not that they have the right to use code from AT&T or its successors (USL, Novell, SCO, Caldera &c). It means that Apple will not be sued if they call macOS Unix, but it most assuredly did not use code from the SVR lineage.
- jrumbut 3y agoThis is the situation I was attempting to make light of. Apple is not what someone from 1990 would think of as a Unix vendor, but due to paying the licensing fee they are one and there are very few left.
- scarface_74 3y agoWhy wouldn’t they? By definition they passed every certification requirement to be Unix
- retrocryptid 3y agoSo... if I take Mach and use it as the basis of a product for a different company, does that company get to say it's Unix? Or does the Unix moniker only apply to products released by Apple? If so, why?
- scarface_74 3y agoBecause Apple went through the certification and validation tests