Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:09:09 -0800 From: "John Purser" <johnmpurser@home.com> To: "'Greg Lehey'" <grog@lemis.com>, "'Sean Michael Whipkey'" <highway@cstone.net>, <eng@cstone.net>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD Quotation Message-ID: <000201bf2b8d$8a81aac0$40390918@home> In-Reply-To: <19991109130755.41940@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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So, do we have anyone who wants to contact CBS and offer to walk them through FreeBSD's place in the Open Source universe or do we just sit and complain about how "They" got it wrong again? John Purser -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Greg Lehey Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 10:08 AM To: Sean Michael Whipkey; eng@cstone.net; freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Quotation On Tuesday, 9 November 1999 at 12:51:17 -0500, Sean Michael Whipkey wrote: > Begin quote: > CBSMW: In your current company, Encanto, you don't use Microsoft's > software. You're using a Linux-like software, right? > > Frankenberg: We are using an open-source software product; it's Free > BSD, as opposed to Linux. Free BSD is a particular flavor of the Unix > operating system. It does an exceptionally good job. The operating > system is distributed for free. Those that write enhancements to it are > required to make those available to everyone. This has resulted in a > significant amount of innovations and new capabilities. > > From: > http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/19991108/news/current/soapbox.htx?source= blq/yhoo&dist=yhoo > > (Courtesy of /.) > > I'm not even going to go into how annoying that question sounds, > though..."Linux-like" indeed. That's not the annoying part. In the overall scheme of things, FreeBSD *is* quite Linux-like. But you are not required to make the enhancements available to everybody. That the big difference that he appears not to understand. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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