From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 12:35:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA25243 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:35:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA25237 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:35:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA06263; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:32:48 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602072032.NAA06263@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be used in a commercial way? To: fyeung@fyeung5.netific.com (francis yeung) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:32:48 -0700 (MST) Cc: ian_stewart@nyro.com, dwalton@psiint.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199602061809.SAA25256@fyeung5.netific.com> from "francis yeung" at Feb 6, 96 06:09:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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.