Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: Jeffrey Siegal
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 01:13

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Steve Mading wrote:
>(I'm glad the DOJ didn't pursue the "split MS into
> OS and application companies" solution to their evil practices.
> While I agree that MS got where it is through evil unethical means,
> I was scared of the prospect of the government deciding where the
> dividing line between OS and App is when even technical people don't
> have a hard and fast definition.  It's like trying to define what
> does and doesn't count as a "high level" programming language.)

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.

I was never in favor of the split remedy (for different reasons) but I 
don't see this as being a significant problem with it.  While technical 
people probably don't agree on any hard and fast defintion, the law and 
the courts would have defined one.  Whatever the law adopted wouldn't 
have universally recognized as technically accurate, but so what?   The 
purpose of the split was to address a legal and market problem, not a 
technical one.

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From: Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com>
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Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 18:13:59 -0700
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