From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Mar 24 18:20:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7E137B739 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:20:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@vivdev.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (dhcp043-10-151-24.nt01-c5.cpe.charter-ne.com [24.151.10.43]) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA17504; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:20:43 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: lists@vivdev.com (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <001301c0b437$d60f45e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <3ABBBD01.713C030@acuson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 21:14:09 -0500 To: tedm@toybox.placo.com From: lists Subject: RE: FreeBSD & GNU Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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