From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 9 10: 7:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7695D1524C for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:07:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA26766; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:07:36 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991109105207.04298ae0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 10:54:17 -0700 To: Sean Michael Whipkey , eng@cstone.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD Quotation In-Reply-To: <38285F15.A656E35B@cstone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What's of greater concern is that the article incorrectly denies a key distinction between FreeBSD and Linux. It says that those who enhance FreeBSD are "required" to make them available to everyone. This is not true, of course, and Frankenberg's statement serves to blur the important differences between the BSD license and the GPL. --Brett At 12:51 PM 11/9/1999 -0500, 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 >significant amount of innovations and new capabilities. > >From: >http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/19991108/news/current/soapbox.htx?source=blq/yhoo&dist=yhoo > >(Courtesy of /.) > >I'm not even going to go into how annoying that question sounds, >though..."Linux-like" indeed. > >SeanMike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message