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And only copying someone's ideas to make something similar, or exactly the same, is *not* the same as copying copyrighted works

Thus Darl is a moron if he believes this is why Linux is wrong.

> And only copying someone's ideas to make something similar, or exactly the same

Linux implement POSIX. Linux does not copy Unix.
It's like Firefox implementing HTML. Firefox is not copying IE, It's just implementing HTML.

Welcome to reality, copy something of the behaviour of Apples beloved OS and they will sue you until the end of the world

And only copying someone's ideas to make something similar, or exactly the same, is *not* the same as copying copyrighted works Thus Darl is a moron if he believes this is why Linux is wrong. "

Linux isn't wrong ... in exactly the same way that any collaboration isn't wrong.

If we didn't have collaborative works ... there would be no innternational telephone network. There would be no shipping. There would be no international flights.

There would be no food industry, no agriculture. There would be no industry at all, in fact, without collaboration and working interfaces between the efforts of separate parties.

Collaboration ... in the sense of many parties working together to make separate small pieces work well together to form a wider system ... is an essential engineering process. Without it, our species would revert to living in caves.



Exactly so. Linux is a collaborative work of many parties ... it is an operating system that implements the POSIX standards.

There is nothing at all "wrong" with that in any way at all ... despite the greed and delusions of some corporate money-grubbing types.

linux is a *reimplementation* of unix. freebsd is closer to a copy of an actual unix.

It's not common knowledge because it isn't.
Linux is a unix-like OS that conforms, to various degrees, with the POSIX standards.

UNIX is a family of similar operating systems and a trademark not an implementation. A set of specifications and tradition defines what UNIX is, not the origin of its source code.

To say that Linux is a copy of UNIX makes no sence. You could say that Linux is an implementation of UNIX or that Linux is a copy of SYSV.

Linux is not certified as a UNIX implementation but there is no theoretical reason to stop a Linux vendor to get a UNIX certification.