It was not Unix that become platform for Internet, but Posix. Linux is not derived from Unix, but supports Unix (Posix) APIs. As does modern MS Windows, and Ma

It was not Unix that become platform for Internet, but Posix. Linux is not derived from Unix, but supports Unix (Posix) APIs. As does modern MS Windows, and Mac OS X. This also means that Google could experiment with OSes like Haiku or Fuchsia that support Posix, but are built in a different way.