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From: nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SUN moving away from BSD to System V
Date: 21 Apr 1996 20:31:29 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley
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In article <4le2bl$ilp@wolfe.wimsey.com>,
Danny Aldham <aldham@vanbc.wimsey.com> wrote:
>Linux looks like SystemV to me. I would doubt that anyone has paid
>for the POSIX compliance testing.

Then you don't follow the Linux community very well.  One distribution
of Linux has been POSIX certified, and yes, someone did pay for it.
Check out the following article from the comp.os.linux.announce archives 
(http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/linux/cola.html)

 http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~wirzeniu/linux/cola.archive/cola.1996-03-13.006

Take care,
-- Nick Kralevich
   nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu