Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:31:22 +0200 From: "Martin Tournoij" <carpetsmoker@gmail.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: BSD4.3 Greatest piece of software according to informationweek. Message-ID: <op.tec2ykw8oycwod@carpet>
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http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=3D= 191901844 "So there you have it: The single Greatest Piece of Software Ever, with = = the broadest impact on the world, was BSD 4.3. Other Unixes were bigger = = commercial successes. But as the cumulative accomplishment of the BSD = systems, 4.3 represented an unmatched peak of innovation. BSD 4.3 = represents the single biggest theoretical undergirder of the Internet. = Moreover, the passion that surrounds Linux and open source code is a = direct offshoot of the ideas that created BSD: a love for the power of = computing and a belief that it should be a freely available extension of= = man's intellectual powers--a force that changes his place in the univers= e." Something to say to the linux-thugs who believe that linux is _THE_ = perfect operating system!
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