From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 6 18:36:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB53537B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 18:36:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2233743E77 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 18:36:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 64459534E; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 03:36:41 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Congrats to Brett Glass for new BSD history article References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Oct 2002 03:36:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: > Though the B.S.D. long contained (some) "free" Berkely code, I don't > think it's fair to try to get people to consider the B.S.D. as having > initially been free, even if it was licensed to some schools for no cost. BSD was always free. It started out as a distribution of free software (not a complete OS) which IIRC included a Pascal compiler, vi and curses, all written at UCB and 100% free. It didn't become an OS until a few years later. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message