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Unix the brand does not cover every OS other than Mac OS X; a brand so dilute would be useless. X-Open has standards you have to meet to be 'blessed'.
The OSes the meet these standards (and have been blessed) do have much in common; they do not share a common codebase (as it happens) but they do present a similar API to applications.
Mac OS X has a very different API- actually, 2 very different APIs- that are commonly used. It has also got an API that meets, or nearly meets, the standard- but this is not the API that actual Mac apps use.
I think so. So does X-Open, for that matter: they have their own compatibility tests. But you...
This is relevant because this is the standard X-Open sets; you have to have the same application interface as other Unixes to be given the right to use the trademark.
Daniel Johnson Mostly only if you have to access its brand of X. That is where the hard part is at. A straight X windows program isn't...
It is not in anyone's interest for the trademark to become meaningless through dilution. Unfortunately, there are so not "Unix" that it has lost much of its value anyway.
The compatibility with Unix is not quite as good as you are suggesting. A recompile is *always* required, and often tweaks too.
This is par for the course on Unix. But both Apple and Microsoft maintain a higher standard of compatibility than Unix.
This is, of course, one of the reasons why the Unix brand languishes so. It promises compatibility, but not enough compatibility.
Java remains a platform distinct from any OS; it might have been otherwise but I don't think its reasonable to conflate Java and Unix as things now stand.
I agree; but I think that this fact is what has made "Unix" a weak brand.
Still, if it were a strong brand, Mac OS X still would not be included.
Mac applications *are not* Unix compatible. Not even with recompiles and tweaks; they are not written to any API that any Unix (or any other
It is the implementation of *these* APIs that are important for security. these APIs are implemented on top of it. But since this layer offers but little functionality, the APIs cannot depend on it much.