Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution

[John Williams]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 15:42 +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    4. "System" is highly ambiguous.  When we say "GNU is not Unix"
>    this begs the question "what is Unix"?  It is certainly not a
>    kernel, a product you can buy, or an ISO you can download.
> 
> Sorry, your history is quite wrong.  UNIX is a "product you can buy",
I'm not talking about the past, but the present.  But I do want to be
correct, so can you tell me where I can buy UNIX?  I understood that one
could purchace SCO UNIX, Solaris, Irix etc, but that there is no product
called UNIX, just as there is no product called "Toyota", but rather
products called "Toyota Corolla", etc.  

Sorry to be so pedantic, but I would like to use this opportunity to
learn from others.

cheers,

John