[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

[Phil Stracchino]

Robert Brooke Gravitt wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2009, at 9:16 PM, wa2egp at att.net wrote:
> 
>> IIRC from the latest ad I scanned a few minutes ago, it said Mac OS  
>> was BASED
>> on UNIX.
>> (emphasis mine)
>>
>> Bob
> 
> No, it was certified as UNIX by the Open Group and is allowed to use  
> the trademark. IIRC, this discussion has crept up a few times on this  
> list; there's considerable debate here as to what constitutes UNIX.

Honestly, as far as I'm concerned, if it looks like a duck, walks like a
duck, quacks like a duck, and runs sysvinit like a duck, for all
practical purposes it's a duck.  I don't give a flying rat turd whether
or not its creators paid danegeld to the current owner of the Duck
trademark.


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