1. Code base. It has no relation whatsoever to anything unix. You know the ATT bell labs unix. Unix kernels descend directly from that, Linux doesn’t. It was written by this genuine genius man named Linus lol
2. Unix trademark certification that is maintained by the “open group”. Linux is not a certified unix, even though it is POSIX compliant.
3. POSIX compliance. Linux is POSIX complaint, but that’s just how it behaves in terms of APIs and system calls. POSIX complaince doesn’t make a system “unix”. Linux is not derived from unix at all, its code is its own code, it behaves like unix, but it is not unix. MacOS, BSD and other unix systems are derived from Unix (I know MacOS has taken its own way now, but still, it came from a Unix code base).
   Tldr; Linux is not unix because it does not descend from AT&T Unix or BSD and it is not UNIX-certified.

What would you say determines whether a kernel is a Unix kernel?

Not what, who. And the answer is The Open Group,

I mean the dude is literally Jewish and pro Israeli, it isn’t even surprising he would have an L take like that

I mean, they do until they don’t. They eventually retired 16 bit subsystem, and they are gungho on TPM now. They have always had EOL dates for old OS’s too. I’m not entirely sure why they do what they do, I suspect they are too large and unwieldy to operate as an entity with a unified vision.

Surely it’s less work to maintain security patches for a few prior versions of windows than it is to indefinitely maintain backwards compatibility

The windows kernel isn’t all that great, particularly in the realm of memory security or scheduling.

You know, to each their own. Question is really whether windows maintaining a closed source kernel even makes sense from a maintenance burden perspective when it really doesn’t give them much money in return. (Most of their money in 2025 comes from cloud services, not operating systems)

https://lemmy.world/post/24613381

That is the fun part 😏

https://youtu.be/u0nuEXxzsdI

For those who don’t have the spare time 🤭

It’s a hard problem in the fediverse. It makes for a ticking time bomb of an issue. Imagine I am on a “everything is your own, we don’t sell your stuff” instance while another instance just copy pasted metas ToS. By posting a response to my instance, which then in turn is federated to the meta style instance I create something hard to solve. I can foresee other issues too.

I see your point. I just think it’s a difficult problem.

I don’t think the ToS approach would be invalidated here via your Safe Harbor fork theory.

The ToS could state something like “you give us a worldwide perpetual right to use your content in any way we want including granting this right to whom we designate”

You still own your content but by having an account you agree to the ToS that lets them do what they want.

They just host it and are safe.

No, it doesn’t matter if the book is at a library or on my friend’s bookshelf, copyright law is literally the right to copy the thing. So if I make an illegal copy, I’m breaking copyright law. The “ToS” I’ve “agreed” to is the law of the country I’m in.

Okay, and if I find the book on the street?

Thanks, appreciate the support!

It’s amazing how bent out of shape some people get about this, both currently, as well as about tenish months ago when I last was on Lemmy (check out my comment history from that time period if you really want to get annoyed).

I got to imagine that its people who want to farm the comments for their LLMs training, that are trying to prevent the popular usage of people licensing their content.

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I feel like it somehow relates to Cunningham’s Law but i can’t figure out how to articulate it.

Well, I’d enjoy it more if people (in general) stopped bothering me about using a license for my content, than I actually do using a license for my content. 😜

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Do you spend a lot of time arguing with people over it?

Allot more than I wish, I really try not to. Even today, I keep asking people to not rehash it, and lets just talk about the topic my comment was posted in. But for some strange reason people just won’t let it go, and push to talk about it.

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Why all the tilde symbols? That’s what makes it quite distracting and hard to read for me tbh.

Nah, I think it’s neat as well. Lemmy would be more boring if no user had idiosyncrasies.

Kind of a sad state of affairs for us all, that wanting to license your own content would be considered an idiosyncrasy, but I get what you were trying to say. 🙂

Hell, I’ve even tagged you with “CC BY-NC-SA 4.0” in my Lemmy client -

Well I’m not the first to use it, I learned to use it here from someone else, but open source licensing notoriety is something I can live with. 😜

which means I will confront you if you ever stop doing it.

Honestly it would be me just leaving Lemmy (again) if the harassment gets to be too much (Edit: Example: https://lemmy.world/comment/15320340).

But I’d rather be here than Reddit, even with the lesser moderation that happens here.

I do appreciate your support, thank you. 👍

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Because.

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Nope, the opposite: in the absence of an explicit license, the default is “all rights reserved.”

I don’t think just thanking someone is real content. /shrug

(Edit: I also declare all that I post/comment is licensed by me as well, in my user account description area.)

But answering someone who thinks they are being funny or annoying, by explaining things to them, would be considered content by me.

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