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Alt text: meme with the 'Always has been' format Linux, MacOS, OpenBSD and ChromeOS logos on top of the Earth The first astronaut says 'Wait, it's all Unix?' A Windows logo, on top of the second astronaut. The second astronaut says 'Always has been' and points a gun to the first astronaut.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

BSD is also unix-like. Quoting OpenBSD, "[OpenBSD] produces a FREE , multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The OG Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) is a direct descendant of Unix. I personally wouldn't qualify this particular version as a "Unix-like".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, reading these comments, it looks like they are not legally able to call it unix, despite having direct lineage. Linux however is a complete re-write, making it more obviously not proper unix by most definitions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

That's because UNIX is a trademark and OS vendors will have to pay fees to opengroup.org in order to call their OS Unix.

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