OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

[Christopher Chan]

Steven Susbauer wrote:
> 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).
>   
Would not that be nice :-D.

> 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).
>
>   

OpenSolaris is a very different beast to older Solaris versions. A lot 
of Solaris admins do not like it.