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Article #4379Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Jeffrey Siegal
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 01:44
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 01:44
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Isaac wrote: > If for the sake of answering the poster's > question we accept this admittedly sloppy usage, then the difference > between Unix and "Linux" is that Unix is the operating system originally > created and trademarked by AT&T, and nothing else, no matter how similar > is Unix. True, but worth recognizing that, like "Windows", the (trademarked) term Unix correctly names quite a number of different (to varying degress) pieces of software that came from AT&T, later from various subsequent owners of the trademark, and in both cases from various authorized licensees.
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