Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 13:07:55 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net>, eng@cstone.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Quotation Message-ID: <19991109130755.41940@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <38285F15.A656E35B@cstone.net>; from Sean Michael Whipkey on Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:51:17PM -0500 References: <38285F15.A656E35B@cstone.net>
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On Tuesday, 9 November 1999 at 12:51:17 -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. That's not the annoying part. In the overall scheme of things, FreeBSD *is* quite Linux-like. But you are not required to make the enhancements available to everybody. That the big difference that he appears not to understand. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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