Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 21:14:09 -0500 From: lists <lists@vivdev.com> To: tedm@toybox.placo.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD & GNU Message-ID: <v04003a00b6e303167e9a@[192.168.1.100]> In-Reply-To: <001301c0b437$d60f45e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <3ABBBD01.713C030@acuson.com>
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Ted held forth: [snip, edit] >If some major commercial software organization was to step in and, say, >choose GNU's effort as a base for their code, then it might possibly >rejuvinate those projects. >But, that's not going to happen now. The last chance for anything like that >to happen was when Apple chose the codebase to jumpstart their MacOS >X/Darwin effort, >and they chose FreeBSD. > I haven't followed this at all, could you elaborate a bit on the extent to which OS X is FreeBSD? >We are rapidly seeing the institutionalizing of the Open Source software >market. [snip] > >It's sad in a way, because FreeBSD and Linux are going down the same road >that MS-DOS and Windows went down. Could you elaborate on how this is possible? I always understood that DOS was turned into the commercial juggernaut that it became because gates et al controlled the source code. But isn't the source for FreeBSD open? I really do not have a clue here, and it is an interesting forecast on a number of levels. thanks, chris lists@vivdev.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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