[aclug-L] Re: Clone? (was: Re: There are still some monkeys in the CEO chair)

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since there are MANY MANY people who fail to use our language correctly, 
I believe the word 'clone' is often misused.
As it is commonly used today (especially in light of the genetics 
experiments) clone refers to a "copy" (presumed identical) of the 
original.  In that respect Linux is definitely NOT a clone of unix.  

However, since most unix applications will easily run natively or with 
slight tweaking on a linux platform and the only other major desktop OS 
out there requires major alteration to  the application for it to run on 
Linux, ------  Linux is easily seen (and usually referred to) as a 
'clone' of unix.

"Unix like" is the _correct_ description if one is referring to the OSes 
available before Linux was created.

This makes the argument almost moot.


Jonathan Hall wrote:

>The first link is a newsgroup discussion explaining why Linux IS a clone,
>and the others are not
>
>http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug-chat/2002/08/msg00010.html
>
>
>These others are just references to the fact that Linux is a clone....
>http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~echi/technolog/technolog.html
>http://www.ibiblio.org/dbarberi/fools/classic/1993/Linux-for-Macintosh.html
>http://www.hoefkens.com/lnx.html
>http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~echi/technolog/technolog.appendix.html
>http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Kern
>el/11000/
>
>There are roughly 159,000 other such documents out there, according to
>Google.  I won't list them all :)
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