From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 16 19:41:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA08408 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 19:41:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gutenberg.uoregon.edu (gutenberg.uoregon.edu [128.223.56.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA08402 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 19:41:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sharding@gutenberg.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (sharding@localhost) by gutenberg.uoregon.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA14146; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 19:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 19:44:09 -0700 From: Sean Harding Reply-To: Sean Harding To: Tim Gerchmez cc: Sean Harding , pirat sriyotha , David Knapp , "newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Difference between Linux and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980716181623.00810cc0@mx.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > Linux is free monetarily, but constrained in certain ways by the GPL. In Agreed. I just was basically pointing out the fact that the statement "FreeBSD is free" without any explanation is misleading and will most likely be misunderstood by anyone who hasn't read up on the GPL vs. BSD License debate. And someone who knew about that sort of thing probably wouldn't be here asking about the difference between FreeBSD and Linux :-) It's important to be clear when people are new and asking questions. We should try to avoid misleading or confusing them at all costs. Sean -- Sean Harding sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu|"It's not a habit, it's cool. http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sharding/ | I feel alive." NeXTMail OK! | --k's Choice To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message