From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 22 0:13:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from web14703.mail.yahoo.com (web14703.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 850E037B406 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:13:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hackr_d@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010622071339.61802.qmail@web14703.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.67.120.228] by web14703.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:13:39 PDT Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:13:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Donn Miller Subject: Re: Microsoft uses FreeBSD To: Kenneth Mays , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Kenneth Mays wrote: > Microsoft focuses its attacks on Linux. They know they can't compete > head-to-head well against FreeBSD or even BSDI Internet Server on > that note > (on the server level). Actually, the reason MS hates Linux so much is because the Linux kernel is GPL'd. Secondly, the Linux community has this "destroy Microsoft" mentality (not that I blame them though). They use FreeBSD because it has the more open BSD license, which allows them to do whatever they want with the BSD code without fear of legal action. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message