So in this statement you say "Who owns it gets to define it." Good, then the certification (trademark) definition of UNIX is correct (the Open Group owns it and defines it) and your lineage definition is wrong.
s for the facts, Linux only meets one of your own three definitions LOL. How hilarious is that?
You only need to meet one definition. It is only your misunderstanding that is hilarious.
But using them anyway, if you have all three you're bonafide UNIXtm. Two of the three is "Unix". One of the three is wannabe, "Unix-like".
You are the only place I have ever heard that concept from. The fact is that you need to meet one to be UNIX™. That is certification. Although if you get certification you also de facto meet the functionality definition. Lineage from Bell/AT&T is not required.
Considering your history of admitted lying to protect criminal foreign hackers
Aside from the fact that your statement is false, that nmap thing exposing your ignorance really put a long-term thorn in your paw, didn't it?
Good for me, since that would obviously show my interpretation is more correct. Using the formal trademark Linux is definitely OUT. You can whine all you want about it, swear it's going to happen one day, but under the true definition your claim "Linux is a UNIX" is again bogus.
Lineage from Bell/AT&T is not required.
In a historical context it does, when you are describing "Unix". Linux is a different product, different name, mostly different development track until recently, and the copyright holder on most of the core O/S has labled it quote "NOT UNIX".
So most if not all of the copyright and trademark holders regarding Linux and the UNIX trademarks say Linux is not UNIX, yet you claim this somehow proves me wrong when it obviously blows your claim Linux IS UNIX completely out of the water.
From Kernel.Org, home of the Linux kernel. It clearly says quote “Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix” unquote, right on the front page. Whine some more but these are the facts.
What is Linux?
Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.
This is from the GNU website, who along with the kernel.org group provide the core O/S software for Linux. Right on their front page, just like kernel.org, they state quote:
The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix”; it is pronounced g-noo, as one syllable with no vowel sound between the g and the n.