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Being a licenced Unix is a technicality, mostly involving willingness to pay for a badge. Being a properly free and unrestricted environment to work with and w
by josteink 11y ago
Being a licenced Unix is a technicality, mostly involving willingness to pay for a badge.
Being a properly free and unrestricted environment to work with and work in is not. That's something concrete, real and has actual value.
- stephenr 11y ago> Being a properly free and unrestricted environment to work with and work in is not So why didn't you say that? You said "I was referring to Linux as a proper, unrestricted Unix-environment" To be pedantic, Linux is the kernel. The environment, is the GNU userland, which is specifically NOT UNIX. Yes I know it's Unix-like. But when you start your complaint with "it's not proper" try to at least know what you want it to be and what you don't want. OS X is a "proper UNIX" operating system. GNU/Linux distributions are free unix-like operating systems.
- teacup50 11y ago> Being a licenced Unix is a technicality, mostly involving willingness to pay for a badge. It's not, actually. You also have to do a lot of work to conform to the specs. Linux doesn't. BSDs come very close. Mac OS X is conformant.