Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:31:07 -0600 (CST) From: Don Read <sysop@calcasieu.com> To: freebsd@netsys.hn (FreeBSD Questions) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO Unix vrs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <9901041631.AA06946@oak.austin.calcasieu.com> In-Reply-To: <199901041525.JAA24266@mail.netsys.hn> from "FreeBSD Questions" at Jan 4, 99 09:25:19 am
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> Hello, I want to know why a License for SCO Unix cost that much and FreeBSD
> is FREE?
Because they intend to make money from it.
> It is better? More things to do with?
Nope.
> We are a ISP that uses FreeBSD in our servers, but other ISP tell people
> that we use free downloaded software form the Internet, and since that how
> can we provide security or stability.
I run Data General, SCO, & FreeBsd's here at work, all are rock-solid.
But the only boxes I expose to the outside are FreeBSD, simply due to the
availability of the source to patch any security problems.
With DG and SCO I'd have to wait for them to fix and release the binary.
As a matter of taste, I'd drop the SCO boxes in a heart-beat if I could
get my software vendor to agree to support FreeBSD (but then that would cut
into _their_ sales).
> I know FreeBSD is good, very good I
> like it a lot.
Hmmmmm.
They also say 'why you don't buy a "real" Unix software, like
> those you pay for?'.
>
Sometimes you compete on cost, somtimes performance, and sometime on marketing.
You can get SCO (single-user) for free, does this make it any less "real"?
Regards,
--
Don Read sysop@calcasieu.com
EDP Manager dread@texas.net
Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX
-- Will sysadmin for food
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