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What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified?

Source: OSNews

Article note: That's some interesting ephemera that ties together some of the tales of the era. They actually got their cert _much_ later than I remember they implied.

A lot.

I was the tech lead at Apple for making Mac OS X pass UNIX certification, and it was done to get Apple out of a $200M lawsuit filed by The Open Group, for use of the UNIX trademark in advertising.

Fascinating bit of history.

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