On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:24:39AM -0600, Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Nate Straz wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:11:25PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote: > >>So, GNU's Not UNIX, but is Linux UNIX? Why or why not? > > > >I see you haven't been paying any attention to the SCO vs IBM fiasco. > >Perhaps you need to read up on Groklaw. > > I have read about that suit, but maybe I didn't understand it. The suit > was about UNIX code that belonged to SCO getting into the Linux kernel. > They may have been lying. How does this relate to the question of whether > Linux would meet the criteria for a UNIX operating system? Is UNIX > defined by particular lines of code, or is it defined by functionalty? UNIX is defined by the code it was derrived from. All UNIX flavors[1] started from the same code base. Linux was started from scratch, thus it's not really UNIX, just UNIX-like. SCO is trying to prove that some of the code in Linux came from "their" UNIX codebase. Nate [1] Solaris, AIX, IRIX, HP/UX, etc