Two question about UNIX(r) certification

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 18:25 ,
freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org moved his mouse, rebooted
for the change to take effect, and then said:

> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:49:07 +0000
> From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification.

> Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:

> >> Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> >>
> >>> I recently noticed that Apple's new OS, Leopard, is Unix
> >>> certified.

> >> "UNIX Certified" what the #@$#$@ does that mean as far I know
> >> no one is in a position to make such a statement except maybe
> >> the current owner of the Unix trademark (sco if I am not
> >> mistaken)

> >> From here:

> > http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#unix

> > Mac OS X is now a fully certified UNIX operating system, conforming to
> > both the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3) and POSIX 1003.1. Deploy
> > Leopard in environments that demand full UNIX conformance and enjoy
> > expanded support for open standards popular in the UNIX community such
> > as the OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) or ECMAs Office XML.

> This is complete and total fluff unless they say who certified
> it. And no one has legit claim to be able to do that.

Opengroup has certified it.

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