That would mean it uses AT&T copyrighted code, the SVR 4 codebase which is the latest. Apple has no license to this code.
It's utterly AMAZING how this person can keep posting misinformation on here again and again. It's no wonder he got downvoted like crazy until they removed the system.
He just said himself in his previous post that to be officially called UNIX, it doesn't have to have copyrighted code, just registered and licensed by the SUS group, which Intel Leopard, Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion versions of OSX most definitely are registered. Thus, OSX *IS* UNIX and any OS
derived from it therefore must be based on UNIX (since they are one and the same thing as far as the SUS group is concerned).
Being derived from UNIX and being UNIX are not the same thing as far the SUS and AT&T are concerned, but here it doesn't matter since the question is whether it was derived from a form of UNIX and YES IT IS.
PERIOD.
To the layman, all "Unix-like" operating systems would probably fall into the same field of question. Is it based on a Unix-like operating system? Yes, it is
regardless of whether it's certified or not.
Is therefore iOS itself "Unix-like"? Why not ask an independent developer that makes apps for it that do not go through the App store like say, the XBMC team? OSX and iOS both have Darwin in common as the foundation with the XNU/BSD/Mach hybrid kernel at the core. The abstraction layers above Darwin differ somewhat and that is the key fundamental difference between OSX and iOS. None of those layers have anything to do with UNIX itself (rather that is the core OS called Darwin that is UNIX 03 rated).
Heck, even a quick check to Wikipedia will answer the question:
Wikipedia page on OSX says:
iOS is derived from OS X, with which it shares the Darwin foundation, and is therefore a Unix operating system.
KnightWRX says:
It's a Darwin based operating system. Darwin, in one incarnation, namely OS X on Intel hardware, is a UNIX operating system. However, not all its incarnations are, such as iOS.
KnightWRX seems to want to argue about whether iOS is certified UNIX by itself, even though the question was whether it was BASED ON UNIX, not whether it is certified TO BE UNIX. I really don't know what's so hard to 'get' there and why he would keep defending his position which is misleading.
If iOS was capable of passing the SUS test suite, I have no doubt Apple would.
Yes, because he's psychic and knows what Apple will and won't do.
I suppose he knew they wouldn't bother with Lion, but would with Mountain Lion (they are SO consistent, after all).
For goodness sake, iOS is not an open platform OS and Apple doesn't apear to want it to ever be one. WTF good would it do to to certify it? Certification helps Apple on a professional level (credibility) for OSX. iOS is the consumer level OS for their gadget devices. Until Apple decides to push iOS as a professional level operating system, I don't foresee them bothering to register for SUS certification (I could be wrong, however). Besides, looking at the news reports, etc., MOST people just associate iOS with OSX and assume there's no real difference on a fundamental level. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. And THUS the question of whether iOS is "UNIX BASED" or not and OF COURSE IT IS. It's based on a certified UNIX platform. How by DEFINITION could it NOT be considered "UNIX BASED"?
They still do even now as they have shown with OS X 10.8. iOS is probably missing quite a few components and a few of its more restricted sub-systems probably preclude it from respecting the SUS.
And not ONE word of that demonstrates that iOS is
NOT *derived* from OSX (as Apple will tell you flat up IT IS) and since
OSX *IS* UNIX, therefore, iOS IS DERIVED FROM UNIX. There's no argument here. It's just a flat out FACT. Frankly, I'm getting pretty tired of this guy telling people half truths. They are getting dangerously close to lies, IMO, all just to avoid admitting what he said was misleading at best and flat out wrong at worst.
And unlike him, I don't have anyone on my ignore list because ignoring problems don't make them go away. It's just another form of denying reality. If you put everyone on your ignore list, you can spout off any BS nonsense you want all day long and it will
appear that no one disagrees with you because you will never see any of it, regardless of whether it appears that way to anyone else.
