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Originally Posted by dalonso View Post
No, you are wrong. Indeed, your quote of wikipedia says nothing about UNIX being a commercial version o Linux. It says "unix-like".

In fact, Linux means "Linux is not Unix".

UNIX is not really an operating system: It could better be understood as a set of tools which names, options and behaviours must be respected in order for an Operating System being called of Unix flavour.

Solaris is a Unix flavour, BSD is a Unix flavour, MacOS X is a Unix flavour, SCO is/was a Unix flavour.

Linux+GNU tools is not a Unix flavour, as it has never been certified as so. It's more of an "emulator" that tries to be compliant to Unix but without being Unix.
Mostly an accurate response...but unix is to an operating system! darn kids! get off of my lawn! Unix was an operating system long before Linux, DOS and the current mac os existed. Before you were born, we all used variants of unix. BSD is just one flavor. It's always been an operating system, free and open source even though developed at Bell labs...just other companies developed their own and marketed them...like Sun etc.