Bad wording

Bad wording

Posted Mar 8, 2004 18:39 UTC (Mon) by fLameDogg (guest, #11305)
In reply to: Bad wording by stuart
Parent article: From code war to Cold War (BBC)

Not only that, there is this:

"For the moment, the battleground is the legal action which the SCO Group, which currently own the Unix operating system which inspired Linux..."

That assertion is in some dispute, to say the least:

http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-1015624.html?tag=fd_nc_1

http://www.opengroup.org/

Sorry, no time for HTML.

At least the article did get the "GNU/Linux" thing right, for those who consider that right, and important. Er... in the part you quoted, not in the part I did. Funny thing, that. But no, Linux in and of itself was inspired by Unix, but then, so was GNU...

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