From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 4 08:31:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA02767 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:31:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fir.calcasieu.com (fir.calcasieu.com [209.99.46.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02762 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:31:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sysop@austin.calcasieu.com) Received: from oak.austin.calcasieu.com (oak.austin.calcasieu.com [192.168.170.7]) by fir.calcasieu.com (8.8.8/8.8.8-2.0) with SMTP id KAA00152; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:31:10 -0600 (CST) Received: by oak.austin.calcasieu.com id AA06946 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:31:07 -0600 From: Don Read Message-Id: <9901041631.AA06946@oak.austin.calcasieu.com> Subject: Re: SCO Unix vrs. FreeBSD To: freebsd@netsys.hn (FreeBSD Questions) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:31:07 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199901041525.JAA24266@mail.netsys.hn> from "FreeBSD Questions" at Jan 4, 99 09:25:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hello, I want to know why a License for SCO Unix cost that much and FreeBSD > is FREE? Because they intend to make money from it. > It is better? More things to do with? Nope. > 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 run Data General, SCO, & FreeBsd's here at work, all are rock-solid. But the only boxes I expose to the outside are FreeBSD, simply due to the availability of the source to patch any security problems. With DG and SCO I'd have to wait for them to fix and release the binary. As a matter of taste, I'd drop the SCO boxes in a heart-beat if I could get my software vendor to agree to support FreeBSD (but then that would cut into _their_ sales). > I know FreeBSD is good, very good I > like it a lot. Hmmmmm. They also say 'why you don't buy a "real" Unix software, like > those you pay for?'. > Sometimes you compete on cost, somtimes performance, and sometime on marketing. You can get SCO (single-user) for free, does this make it any less "real"? Regards, -- Don Read sysop@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX -- Will sysadmin for food To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message