Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: Jeffrey Siegal
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 19:24

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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.

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

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From: Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com>
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Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 12:24:33 -0700
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