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Post 34732 by LivinFree on Saturday 8th of March 2003 11:35:51 PM
03-09-2003
Well, I don't think anybody really understands whats going on with this - it seems to be some sort of poli-techinal "fireman's contest", to put it politely.
There's a short article on it here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...nixsuit08.html
I don't think they've hit it quite on the head, though. Just as a further evidence on the misunderstandings of this issue, below is a link to a comment posted on Slashdot by Bruce Perens ( for those who have not heard the name before, Bruce Perens is an adamant Open Source advocate, and I believe he still works for HP):
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=...=56225&tid=123
As for the trademark name, X/Open {(r)(t) and so on} does acknoledge the use of the Unix name to companies who have "bought" the name before they had it - one of them being SCO (the current owner of the direct descendent sysVr4 code). Heck, you can browse true Unix code online now: http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/ . I've even gotten SystemV and older versions running on a linux box using PDP-11 emulators...
And then again, maybe Bruce (and the rest of the world) is way off... Hey, being that I'm up here in Cupertino for a while for training at HP (Their campus is across the street right now - in fact I can see it out the window), maybe I could track down Mr. Perens and ask him whats going on
There's a short article on it here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...nixsuit08.html
I don't think they've hit it quite on the head, though. Just as a further evidence on the misunderstandings of this issue, below is a link to a comment posted on Slashdot by Bruce Perens ( for those who have not heard the name before, Bruce Perens is an adamant Open Source advocate, and I believe he still works for HP):
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=...=56225&tid=123
As for the trademark name, X/Open {(r)(t) and so on} does acknoledge the use of the Unix name to companies who have "bought" the name before they had it - one of them being SCO (the current owner of the direct descendent sysVr4 code). Heck, you can browse true Unix code online now: http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/ . I've even gotten SystemV and older versions running on a linux box using PDP-11 emulators...
And then again, maybe Bruce (and the rest of the world) is way off... Hey, being that I'm up here in Cupertino for a while for training at HP (Their campus is across the street right now - in fact I can see it out the window), maybe I could track down Mr. Perens and ask him whats going on
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URI::URL - Uniform Resource Locators SYNOPSIS
$u1 = URI::URL->new($str, $base); $u2 = $u1->abs; DESCRIPTION
This module is provided for backwards compatibility with modules that depend on the interface provided by the "URI::URL" class that used to be distributed with the libwww-perl library. The following differences exist compared to the "URI" class interface: o The URI::URL module exports the url() function as an alternate constructor interface. o The constructor takes an optional $base argument. The "URI::URL" class is a subclass of "URI::WithBase". o The URI::URL->newlocal class method is the same as URI::file->new_abs. o URI::URL::strict(1) o $url->print_on method o $url->crack method o $url->full_path: same as ($uri->abs_path || "/") o $url->netloc: same as $uri->authority o $url->epath, $url->equery: same as $uri->path, $uri->query o $url->path and $url->query pass unescaped strings. o $url->path_components: same as $uri->path_segments (if you don't consider path segment parameters) o $url->params and $url->eparams methods o $url->base method. See URI::WithBase. o $url->abs and $url->rel have an optional $base argument. See URI::WithBase. o $url->frag: same as $uri->fragment o $url->keywords: same as $uri->query_keywords o $url->localpath and friends map to $uri->file. o $url->address and $url->encoded822addr: same as $uri->to for mailto URI o $url->groupart method for news URI o $url->article: same as $uri->message SEE ALSO
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