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Old 21st May 2008
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
Today's BSDs may have started their lives way-back-when as Unix, but today they are known as "Unix-like systems," just like Linux is...
The reason for using the "Unix-like" moniker is because the name "UNIX" has been trademarked by the Open Group:

http://www.unix.org/trademark.html

...which means that a lot of money has to exchange hands in order to legally be called Unix today.
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