Star McBride: "Linux Is a Copy of UNIX"
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st May 2008 19:41 UTC
Law and Order Speaking of soap operas, there's one soap opera in the technology world that has been going on for so long that nobody really seems to know why it was ever started, whatever all the different moves have been over the years, or whoever lost or won which battle. Just like a true soap opera, you can just jump right in the middle of it and feel like you've always been part of the regular audience. The SCO saga is such a case.
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RE: Comment by kittynipples
by umccullough on Thu 1st May 2008 21:03 UTC in reply to "Comment by kittynipples"
umccullough
Member since:
2006-01-26

"Linux Is a Copy of UNIX"

I thought this was common knowledge?


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.

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RE[2]: Comment by kittynipples
by superman on Thu 1st May 2008 21:18 in reply to "RE: Comment by kittynipples"
superman Member since:
2006-08-01

> 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.

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Oliver Member since:
2006-07-15

Well HTML is free, try to implement e.g. H264 and sell the product. Tadaaaa, so it has nothing to do if you implement something, but if it's free to use!

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tyrione Member since:
2005-11-21

> 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.


Linux mostly implements POSIX.

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RE[2]: Comment by kittynipples
by Oliver on Thu 1st May 2008 22:28 in reply to "RE: Comment by kittynipples"
Oliver Member since:
2006-07-15

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

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umccullough Member since:
2006-01-26

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


That isn't copyright infringement (unless you copied their logo and/or artwork directly) - that's trademark and/or patent infringement.

These are completely different topics. It's unfortunate that people get those mixed up so much.

edit: added clarification on logo/artwork

Edited 2008-05-01 23:25 UTC

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lemur2 Member since:
2007-02-17

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


Apple's beloved OS isn't a public standard.

POSIX is a public standard.

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javiercero1 Member since:
2005-11-10

And then reality answers back that Apple already sued Microsoft and lost.

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RE[2]: Comment by kittynipples
by lemur2 on Thu 1st May 2008 23:45 in reply to "RE: Comment by kittynipples"
lemur2 Member since:
2007-02-17

""Linux Is a Copy of UNIX" I thought this was common knowledge?
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.

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


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.

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