Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 21:21:03 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial Distribution? Message-ID: <20040107032103.GA19107@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <E1Ae3DE-0007QZ-00@smtp.perfora.net> References: <44wu84bk7v.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <E1Ae3DE-0007QZ-00@smtp.perfora.net>
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:14:41PM -0500, David D.W. Downey wrote: > And how is that different from Linux? FreeBSD is an Operating System, so is > Red Hat, Debian, Stampede, SLS, Slackware, and on and on. FreeBSD does the > same thing. FreeBSD didn't develop OpenSSL but it includes it, nor did it > develop SSH or swat, but it includes them. Just as linux distributions do. That's somewhat incorrect in my view. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/index.html for details. My attempt at a summary: RedHat et al may /distribute/ an operating system, but they did not write it. An analogy in the motorcycle world are the custom bike shops (some of which make extremely nice motorcycles!) versus Harley-Davidson. The custom bike shops carefully (one hopes) select components from the open market and put the polish on the resulting product. H-D may also use open market products (electrics *cough*, carbs *cough*) but are considered a /manufacturer/. Both sell motorcycles (operating systems). There is a distinction, however. -T -- Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance. - Robert Heinlein
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