Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:32:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: fyeung@fyeung5.netific.com (francis yeung) Cc: ian_stewart@nyro.com, dwalton@psiint.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be used in a commercial way? Message-ID: <199602072032.NAA06263@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199602061809.SAA25256@fyeung5.netific.com> from "francis yeung" at Feb 6, 96 06:09:33 pm
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> Only SVR4 (original AT&T) version need licenses. That is why > Sun paid $85M to Novell. Actually, Sun did it as a "royalty buyout". If it were a fixed cost, it would be "one time overhead", and the street price of Solaris would have dropped immediately. It didn't. > BSDI did the same thing. Did BSDI ever give FreeBSD anything > in return ? The initd, for one thing. I think there are several other general patches that came from BSDI. > There are companies selling Linux with their own enhancements > and call it different name. I hadn't heard of this. Even Yggdrasil and Ret Hat call it Linux... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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