On Wednesday, 13 August 2003 at 18:31:49 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:48, Patrick Lesslie wrote: >> Wasn't there an "Open Software Group" with something to do >> with proprietary desktops? > > The Open Group owns the definition of what is and is not UNIX. And the > trademark to it. They're making noises which seem to be hinting that > they'd like to help with sprinkling holy UNIX water on Linux but don't > want to upset the big UNIX names by so doing. Well, they don't have to > worry unduly about AIX or Irix, but Solaris is a bit of a difficult > read (must confess I'd probably enjoy the awkward posturing from Sun if > TOG did bless Linux) and SCO UNIX/OpenServer/UnixWare is almost > certainly a political powder keg (although massively amusing if they > _did_ react :-). My reading of TOG is that they're very pro-Linux. In 2000, they published a book "The UNIX System Today", along with a CD of Debian. I was a little puzzled about that, since the contents of the book were UNIX, not Linux, but it certainly isn't the action of an anti-Linux group. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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