If something looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, what is it?

The answer, of course, depends on whether or not the name "duck" is a trademark! If it is, then the closest that something can get, without permission of the owner of the trademark, is "duck-like."

``UNIX'' is a trademark of X/Open Company Ltd., and NetBSD has not been branded with that trademark by X/Open. Therefore, NetBSD is not UNIX, it is at best ``UNIX-like,'' or, for the more paranoid, ``UN*X-like.''


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