From owner-freebsd-security Fri May 5 16:36:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3584237B69A; Fri, 5 May 2000 16:36:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (ip52.salt-lake-city6.ut.pub-ip.psi.net [38.27.95.52]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09231; Fri, 5 May 2000 17:36:36 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <39135B2E.A1FF0593@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 17:37:18 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Heckaman Cc: "David O'Brien" , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packet-Filtering Firewall: An Expnasion of an Existing Implementation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matt Heckaman wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > This is a bit off topic, but I'm choosing to post here because I might not > be the only one interested in this quote: > > "Being a research-oriented OS, FreeBSD is, as implied by its name, > a Free Code OS, i.e. it is distributed along with the entire code > and can be compiled and altered at will in private environments." > > The use "private environments" here is unclear I believe. Am I mistaken in > understanding that it can be compiled and altered at will in any and all > environments? I don't mean to "troll" the list or anything of the sort, > I'm simply an obsessive and quite picky guy when it comes to details ;) You are not mistaken. FreeBSD is provided with complete source to the entire system, including all of the tools necessary to build the system itself. You can customize it to your needs as you wish, and are under no legal obligation to contribute your modifications to anyone. FreeBSD is also free as in "free beer", it can be downloaded from an internet FTP server at no licensing cost whatsoever. You do have to pay for some method of transporting the bits onto your computer, either via the internet or by purchasing a CD-ROM. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message