Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: Kermit Tensmeyer
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:04

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"Sami Sihvonen" <ss@janiika.com> wrote in message
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> In article <aermut$1vt9$1@agate.berkeley.edu>,
> alanc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Alan Coopersmith) wrote:
>
> > You mean copyright, not trademark.  If Linus called it "Linus Unix",
> > he would have been open to the same trademark lawsuit as BSDi was.
> > (Trademark protects brand names, copyright covers copying the code.)
>
> It is GNU/Linux, not Linux... See http://www.gnu.org/ for details.

  no   it's not.   despite gnu.org desperate attempt to cover up
for the non-appearence of Hurd.. ;-(

   Linux is the OS.   gnu - tools provide some of the very good
 software that also runs on Linux  and Unix and ...

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From: "Kermit Tensmeyer" <nspam.x0kermit@ti.com>
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Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:04:06 -0500
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