"The IEEE and The Open Group have granted permission to the NetBSD Foundation to incorporate more than 1400 interfaces from the joint IEEE 1003.1 POSIX standard and The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 into its NetBSD operating system. This step benefits developers in the NetBSD Project and software engineers using NetBSD as their target platform. NetBSD developers can now use standard documentation to express that a NetBSD operating system conforms to the POSIX standard. The step also gives engineers who write software to run on NetBSD a better understanding of how to create portable programs using IEEE 1003.1."
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Member since:2006-01-09
To get an implementation certified requires intensive pedantic testing which often gets charged for.
Years back there was a Linux distro that got certified, however most of the FOSS world settles for conformance.
Leaves me wondering why NetBSD and not others. Still; I am glad they have made a start.
Member since:2005-09-21
You don't have to get permission to implement a standard. But how will a customer know that you have implemented the standard, and done so correctly? Should they take your word for it? This allows NetBSD to not only implement the standard but to make the verifiable claim of POSIX conformance, with the verification coming from the POSIX authorities themselves.
Member since:2005-08-08
> but to make the verifiable claim of POSIX conformance, with the verification coming from the POSIX authorities themselves.
The POSIX guys did not certified NetBSD as being POSIX compliant; they just gave the NetBSD foundation the right to include the documentation in their product.
The press release is quite unclear.
Member since:
2005-07-08
I don't understand why you've to get a permission to add support for a standard. Standards are supposed to be...standards, having to gran permission looks the same than making them closed standards and granting licenses to the people you want