OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

[Steven Susbauer]

Christopher Chan wrote:
>> It wasn't really accurate in numerous places.  I used SCO Unix on an 
>> intel platform, a pc, in 1991.  That was UNIX.  It ran fine on a standard 
>> PC that would normally run windows.  The real difference between Linux 
>> and Unix is that Unix is a trademarked name and you have to pay and pass 
>> a certification to use the name.  In all other respects Linux is Unix.  
>>
>>
>>   
> GNU = GNU is NOT UNIX. :-D
> 

Funny though, if someone paid and it passed the certification, then it
could use the UNIX name (at least in that implementation).

The GNU acronym was made for the closed source days of the actual OS
named UNIX. Today UNIX is just a trademarked name, and with OpenSolaris
much of SysV put out in the open anyway (or so I have heard it said).

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