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Unix is tradmarked

Unix is tradmarked

Posted Sep 26, 2008 11:09 UTC (Fri) by alex (subscriber, #1355)
In reply to: Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times) by xaoc
Parent article: Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)

Unix is trademarked term for officially licensed operating systems. The correct term for Linux is that it is a broadly POSIX compliant operating system. The propriety Unix's are also POSIX operating systems. It's often corrupted when people refer to Unix-like systems.


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