Date: 07 Oct 2002 03:36:40 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Congrats to Brett Glass for new BSD history article Message-ID: <xzp3crj113r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <wq65wq6erq.5wq@localhost.localdomain> References: <wq65wq6erq.5wq@localhost.localdomain>
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swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: > Though the B.S.D. long contained (some) "free" Berkely code, I don't > think it's fair to try to get people to consider the B.S.D. as having > initially been free, even if it was licensed to some schools for no cost. BSD was always free. It started out as a distribution of free software (not a complete OS) which IIRC included a Pascal compiler, vi and curses, all written at UCB and 100% free. It didn't become an OS until a few years later. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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