Unix is dead. Long live Unix

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2 pointsjosephcsible4 comments

Thanks for posting my story.

Very short summary: IBM closed the main US R&D centre for AIX, the last proprietary UNIX in commercial development.

Linux has passed Open Group compatibility testing: it is a UNIX™®.

And it's now the last one in active development, aside from Apple macOS.

I haven't been following the BSDs for years now. But aren't the BSDs (or one of them) still classified as UNIX?

The BSDs meet the technical requirements to be called UNIX, but they haven't undergone the trademark holder's expensive process to get officially verified and be allowed to call themselves such.

Exactly.

And they went through a lot of pain around 4.2Lite to eliminate any remaining AT&T code.

So, strictly, not by the original definition _or_ by the post-1993 one.

But in real life? Yes, definitely.

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