The new 'Linux Foundation'

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Mon Jan 22 16:30:37 EST 2007


On 1/22/07, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   Even BSD = Linux, to some people.
>
>   I have a feeling the BSD lists might disagree.  :-)

  Not those people.  ;-)

  Seriously, though, "Linux" is starting to mean "anything that smells
like Unix, or has touched Free/Open Source Software", much like "Unix"
has come to mean "anything that smells like the 'Unix Time-Sharing
System' created by Ken Thompson, et. al., at AT&T Bell Labs".  I've
encountered people who say things like "BSD is like Linux, right?".

  Given that humans invented language, we sure seem to suck at using it.  :)

-- Ben


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