[BBLISA] Desktop policies and UNIX-ish operating systems

[Michael Sprague]

Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:03:40PM -0500, Patrick Cable wrote:
>   
>> One individual suggested that you couldn't really just say UNIX,
>> because Linux isn't UNIX.
>>     
>
> I think you should tell the Open Group lawyers to go sit on hedgehogs.  From
> my point of view, UNIX is a philosophy of operating system design developed
> by Thompson, Ritchie, et al, and Linux is a UNIX implementation.
>   
Amen brother.

Just call them all UNIX.  The powers that be @ $WORK probably won't know 
or care about the technical distinctions.

M

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Michael F. Sprague
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