Reply to post: Re: So who owns Posix APIs?

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Richard Plinston

Re: So who owns Posix APIs?

> They are all from AT&T. Maybe now SCO?

> This would be the end of Linux etc.

Ironically, it is Google that could lead you finding the answer to such questions as posed in your title. POSIX is a family of standards that were developed by and belong to the IEEE Computer Society.

> And Google just copying the Java APIs like they did must be one of the dumbest things they ever done. Especially as most of those APIs are not very good.

Google didn't 'copy' the API, they _used_ the API, specifically a subset of Apache Harmony.

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