[Golden Eagle]

Is this a verified legal copy of Unix, or is it still possibly illegal? With these clones born overseas you constantly have to wonder.

[ShadowAce]

...you constantly have to wonder.

You only "have to wonder" if you're a MS shill trying to keep people from exploring other possibilities. Give it up.

[N3WBI3]

Please see: The UNIX time line to see where Minix came from.. http://www.levenez.com/unix/

Minix began in 1987 and is a direct descendant of the the 1979 Unix Time Sharing Edition Version 7 (unlike Linux which is not a direct descendant). It licensing is BSD style (meaning you can take it change it sell it and keep the code to yourself so I have to wonder...

Why did you come here to make that comment?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

possibly illegal

How do you define illegal?

[ExDemSince92]

Good Morning, Troll!

It's about as far removed from the Unix code-base as can be imagined. Totally different creature altogether.

Now...Go play in traffic, kid...Ya bother me.

[antiRepublicrat]

Is this a verified legal copy of Unix, or is it still possibly illegal?

Quit showing your ignorance and lack of a computer science education. Tanenbaum wrote a book called Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, which is standard in any decent CS curriculum (among others he wrote). He wrote Minix from scratch as an example of the programming principles in the book, such as modularity and true microkernels.

Minix served as the inspiration for Linus Torvalds's Linux (resulting in the famous Tanenbaum/Torvalds clash over monolithic vs. microkernels). Before you say Linux was stolen again, realize that Tanenbaum has seen Linux and has stated no code was stolen from Minix.

With these clones born overseas you constantly have to wonder.

BTW, on your "foreign" kick, Tanenbaum is an American.