alt Hacker NewsUnix is both a family of operating systems and also a trademark. The name is overloaded - "Unix" is more than one thing at the same time. In addition, the trademark is "UNIX" and the operating system family is "Unix"
MacOS is both UNIX and also not Unix at the same time.
If the trademark holders decided to UNIX certify my cat, which is well within their legal right to do so, would that make her UNIX?
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remix2000 • yesterday at 11:26 AM
Or perhaps they just won't certify your cat just as Apple won't start making Windows PCs…?
Unlike macOS, your cat does not, and will not, meet the industry-accepted standard that describes unix as we know it today.
https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/xym0.htm