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Mac OS X Leopard is Now Officially Unix

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thank-god-now-cat-will-work dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mac OS X Leopard is now officially Unix, according to the Opengroup." I know everyone out there was really worried about this one. Welcome to the August news vacuum!

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  1. Re:I think its a major achievement by ericrost · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Linux isn't UNIX for cost reasons. UNIX is a copyrighted compatibility certification. It costs a lot of money to get that moniker, and it really doesn't mean anything in these days of Linux and BSD.

    Linux is Linux, it doesn't NEED to be UNIX.

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