[antiRepublicrat]

I wish we could all get our terminology straight to avoid confusion. I hear too many “Linux == Unix” comments. Then we need to get straight what “Unix” is. Are we talking codebase, functionality or trademark (certified)? If we’re talking codebase, that’s Novell’s (sorry SCO). If we’re talking functionality, that’s a lot of operating systems equally, including Linux and BSD. If we’re talking trademark, only OS X, AIX, Solaris and HP-UX are allowed to be marketed as modern UNIX.

While we’re at it, I’d like to get rid of the term “Intellectual Property.” It causes and/or shows confusion in almost every thread I see it in.

[Golden Eagle]

IBM almost single-handedly destroyed UNIX, dropping their development agreements with SCO while using some of those same developers to build equivalence in Linux. Apple saw the threat to their business (of cheap Linux on Intel clones with similar GUI's) and quickly dropped IBM processors and switched to Intel to combat both, the best move they've made by far. Now OSX (and OpenSolaris) on Intel are all the rage, UNIX revenues have stablized and IBM has fallen to #2 in the world. Too bad for them, Long Live UNIX.