Ubuntu reaches out to embarrassed SuSE devs

Peter Gordon peter at thecodergeek.com
Sun Nov 26 04:21:45 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 20:20 -0700, grumpy wrote:
> Linux is a reverse engineered variant of UNIX or was originally
> That's why Linus wrote it he couldn't afford a Unix licnse

No it wasn't reverse-engineered. It was built based on POSIX and other
specifications (like Single Unix) that was able to obtain, plus his
experiences with using SunOS (now Solaris) at the University of
Helsinki, where he was a student.
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