Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 01:28:21 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: O'Reilly article: Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate Message-ID: <36E77EA5.E3D6A466@softweyr.com>
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O'Reilly has published an article on the history of "Open Source" at http://opensource.oreilly.com/news/scoville_0399.html It contains a reasonably nice plug for BSD in general and FreeBSD in particular: It is difficult to overestimate the role of BSD UNIX in modern computing. Not only did it beget many key features of all future versions of UNIX, but it was also under the BSD flag that UNIX met the Internet (though at the time it went by its more ancient name, Arpanet). Much of the most common system software surrounding the TCP/IP protocol was developed at UC Berkeley, and was introduced to the world as part of BSD. In the years since, BSD has enjoyed not only a substantial commercial run, but has also found its way into a commerce-free distribution of its own, one to rival Linux. Though not as popular or mediagenic as Linux, FreeBSD can nevertheless be widely found on the machines of hobbyists, ISPs, and major corporations alike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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