[Gllug] bash-tips, learning styles and lofty pursuits

[David Damerell]

On Monday, 19 Apr 2010, - Tethys wrote:
>Well no. If we're being pedantic (and I am), OS X *is* Unix. Linux,
>however, is not.

Pedantry does not enable one to insist that a word only means what it
does in a specific context. This is just the "ha, ha, organic food,
you could hardly have inorganic food" quibble with a different hat on.

Linux isn't UNIX (R) but it is Unix in the sense the word was being
used; more so than Mac OS X is.

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