Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: Steve Mading
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 11:07

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In comp.unix.questions Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com> wrote:
: Steve Mading wrote:
:> : You're confusing two different usages of the same word here.  What the 
:> : DOJ or a court would have considered to be an operating system and what 
:> : technical people consider to be an operating system need not be the same 
:> : thing at all.
:> 
:> Even sticking to the market definition of "stuff that comes
:> bundled with the OS is the OS", there is still a huge problem,

: I don't believe that the court would have used that definition, or even 
: anything close to it.

My point is that there CANNOT be a fair place to make the split, no
matter what definition the court tries to come up with.  I showed
that by showing that it doesn't work in either of the two opposite
extremes (the actual defintion used would have to be somewhere between
the two, and would thus still have had this problem.)

: But it doesn't matter because there is no such split on the table at 
: present.

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From: Steve Mading <madings@baladi.bmrb.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:07:17 +0000 (UTC)
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