IBM First To Receive UNIX 2003 Certification

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IBM First To Receive UNIX 2003 Certification

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 23, 2004 @08:03AM from the gave-a-party-and-nobody-came dept.

Hobart writes "Last Wednesday, IBM's AIX was the first to receive the UNIX 2003 certification from The Open Group, beating out Sun, HP, SCO and the rest. No mention anywhere in the branded products register of any Linux/BSD distribution, or Mac OS X. Are any companies still developing software to this certification, or requiring it?"

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Regular by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-23 08:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This is the most regular first post ever: First post.
1. Re:Regular by glassjaw+rocks · 2004-10-23 08:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  yeah, except you FAILED IT. get out of my sight ass hat.
  
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  -gjr
Recieve by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-23 08:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I recieved this news when I opened slashdot web page.
1. Re:Recieve by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-23 08:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  i before e, except after c Receive.
Noo, a speling eror in the topic by latroM · 2004-10-23 08:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Receive \Re*ceive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Received}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Receiving}.] [OF. receiver, recevoir, F. recevoir, fr. L. recipere; pref. re- re- + capere to take, seize. See See {Capable}, {Heave}, and cf. {Receipt}, {Reception}, {Recipe}.] 1. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.
1. Re:Noo, a speling eror in the topic by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-23 08:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  think back to school though
  
  "i before e"
Re:Coinsidense? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-23 08:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

(-1,Flamebait)
Certified what? Insanity? by Fallen+Andy · 2004-10-23 12:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Who cares. If it walks like UNIX, quacks like UNIX, and doesn't have brain numbing header bugs like those from unix, then it's perhaps unix. Unless it's from microsoft in which case it's a foonix.

(not phoenix.)

But none of this confusion for the big guys would have happened if Richard Stallman hadn't been sufficiently pig headed to believe he could tilt at windmills. Yeah verily Richard, you rock!

Sadly, just like Arthur Clarke, he'll never make money out of that..

I think this bothers him, like totally obviously, it bothers him *NOT AT ALL*

I am equally unperturbed. There are more interesting things, like "are the collared doves as sentient as the feral pidgeons". So far, my research says no. (and one day I'll spell the birds designation accurately).

But they are nice people. With true stories to tell. Which is more than anyone from SCO can say...

(Quick observation which isn't in wikipedia - Collared doves have colour shifting plumage - they are not just boringly beige coloured. So, depending on the light, the colour you see changes.
Second observation: most people (except those who spend time hand feeding them) don't know that they have a flash *orange* patch just on the nape of the neck).

No, I'm not in a sexual liasion with a collared dove...

Cheers from Athens Greece.