From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 9 10: 3:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8710214C58 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:03:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11lFc4-000Fxi-00; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 18:03:24 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA18906; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 18:03:24 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 18:03:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Sean Michael Whipkey Cc: eng@cstone.net, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Quotation In-Reply-To: <38285F15.A656E35B@cstone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Sean Michael Whipkey wrote: >Begin quote: >CBSMW: In your current company, Encanto, you don't use Microsoft's >software. You're using a Linux-like software, right? > >Frankenberg: We are using an open-source software product; it's Free >BSD, as opposed to Linux. Free BSD is a particular flavor of the Unix >operating system. It does an exceptionally good job. The operating >system is distributed for free. Those that write enhancements to it are >required to make those available to everyone. This has resulted in a Really? FBSD isn't GPL, it's BSD license. Can't you keep improvements to yourself if you want? >significant amount of innovations and new capabilities. -jonathon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message