Comment by lproven
3 years ago
Look, I personally agree with you, and >1 Linux distro has passed the certification, which means that, strictly and precisely, Linux is a UNIX. (However that means that FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD technically are not UNIX.)
But that is not what the mainstream industry takes it to mean.
Whereas terms like xNix are, I submit, well understood.
Maybe I should register "xNix" as a trademark, so this debate would be over instantly. :)
:-D
It is certainly one solution.
As I recall, it was quite a long time after Linux was a thing that someone trademarked the name and donated it to the LF.