From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 4 07:54:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA28959 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 07:54:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA28949 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 07:54:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host1.ie-online.it [194.133.148.10]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01705 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:53:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA03510 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:53:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990104165337.00940d60@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:53:37 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: SCO Unix vrs. FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09.25 04/01/99 -0500, you wrote: >Hello, I want to know why a License for SCO Unix cost that much and FreeBSD >is FREE? IMO, first of all because SCO was available for Intel platforms when serious free unixes weren't. Lots of companies installed SCO and now it wouldn't be simple to switch platform... so many companies keep on giving money to SCO to update their systems. For new users... there's a lot of misinformation. ;-) We use almost everywhere FreeBSD, but we have a SCO machine to run an old software made specifically for SCO. I'll try to port that software to FreeBSD as soon as I'll have time. >It is better? More things to do with? I work everyday with FreeBSD, SCO and Solaris. FreeBSD is better, from my point of view. First of all, System V unixes are a mess regarding configuration and management with respect to BSDs. SCO and Solaris are reliable, but no more than FreeBSD... and FreeBSD is faster. >We are a ISP that uses FreeBSD in our servers, but other ISP tell people >that we use free downloaded software form the Internet, and since that how >can we provide security or stability. I know FreeBSD is good, very good I >like it a lot. They also say 'why you don't buy a "real" Unix software, like >those you pay for?'. There's a lot of misinformation, I said... --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - Systems Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message