Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 16:14:52 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation Message-ID: <20120103161452.3b10bb2f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <op.v7ij09ut34t2sn@tech304> References: <4EFF19A7.2060800@ose.nl> <CAGy-%2Bi_SatydS_=a_pOVN6uwBfN2rU7kYWy78Ug=Nq=j3WrrAA@mail.gmail.com> <CAGy-%2Bi_QW78ezYv22YGUg3UCNa4xWdAnKfPMkQxGBfmmiDjK0g@mail.gmail.com> <4EFF94CA.3050304@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120101064247.3e8b0b56@scorpio> <4F00580D.1060208@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120101091420.117aa8f3@scorpio> <20120102065526.GA16481@hemlock.hydra> <20120102083114.6c09d839@scorpio> <20120102193319.GA31717@hemlock.hydra> <20120103020611.GA22209@chancha.local> <4F02A306.5060501@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <CAHieY7SvA-s%2BKh9TL5gjSU6Xb90Q8MkXg8P10Ymf0qFqn0sYTg@mail.gmail.com> <op.v7ij09ut34t2sn@tech304>
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:01:47 -0600, Mark Felder wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:46:54 -0600, Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> wrote: > > > I would just like to add that is FreeBSD was so crappy open sour > > software, why does it run half the Internet? > > This must be a mistake. I was just assured this weekend that FreeBSD is a > niche OS. Maybe consider the chance that a FreeBSD OS can be turned into closed source (which the license explicitely allows) and put into some embedded device, a router, a DSL modem, a managed switch... In parts like this, you won't recognize FreeBSD anymore. If you consider such devices "niche devices", think again: You'll find them near any Internet-connected computer and among the bowels of the whole Internet. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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