Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 16:51:58 +0000 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD mention on CNET news.com Message-ID: <19980203165158.39980@iii.co.uk>
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I haven't seen anyone else mention this yet, so:
There I was, browsing through CNET's news.com when I stumbled upon a
reference to FreeBSD. It's in their "Source code for the masses" article,
and runs
Ten years after its debut on the Internet, Perl remains
freely distributed. But unlike Linux, those who change
or extend the source code for Perl are under no
obligation to give their changes back to the keepers of
the core code base. However, it's a point of pride
among most code hackers to contribute their
innovations back into what Wall calls the "Perl cultural
freeware."
The same is true with two other major freeware projects,
the Apache Web server and the FreeBSD operating
system, both Unix-based. FreeBSD is Linux's younger
cousin and counts an estimated 500,000 users,
according to David Greenman, principal architect on
the core FreeBSD team.
The "Linux's younger cousin" comparison rankles somewhat, but it's better
than no mention at all I suppose.
As is customary, kudos to -core, and everyone else who's contributed to
make FreeBSD the OS it is today.
N
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