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On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 07:10:39 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <109659f$bco7$3@dont-email.me>:

> No, that’s part of what the “Unix philosophy” is about, or perhaps
> better renamed the “*nix philosophy” now, since the one OS still in
> common use that has licensed the “Unix” trademark

You appear to be mired in the 90's.

There is no =| “Unix” trademark |= .

You have been corrected on this multiple times.

"UNIX® is a registered trademark of The Open Group."

"Unix" is the description of a family of POSIX-compliant
operating systems.

Linux is a Unix, but is not UNIX®

MacOS is a Unix, and is also UNIX®.

"*nix" was a term used in the 90's, until
this matter was cleared up.


> does not, and
> actually has never (since its NextStep days) abided by that
> philosophy.

The NeXTStep GUI got grafted onto OS X.  If someone wants to
do something similar on Linux, there is GNUStep or if you
want the NeXT "look and feel", AfterStep.

http://www.afterstep.org/

Once again, you are stuck in the 90's.

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