From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 21:08:37 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A03106566B for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:08:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E7928FC12 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:08:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so970844vws.13 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.76.170 with SMTP id l10mr144114vdw.77.1308172116250; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmail.com (ool-435056c7.dyn.optonline.net [67.80.86.199]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c9sm338123vdv.4.2011.06.15.14.08.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:08:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:08:31 -0400 From: Chris Brennan To: Thomas Hansen Message-ID: <20110615210830.GB23541@gmail.com> References: <4DF9174F.50708@danskdatacenter.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DF9174F.50708@danskdatacenter.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: free sco unix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:08:37 -0000 * Thomas Hansen [2011-06-15 22:34:23 +0200]: > one of my mates teacher says that unix is free and your system running > like UnixWare / SCO UNIX and .... and that unix is free > > > Do your BSD kernel run the same unix kernel as unixware FreeBSD is a UNIX-like clone, which is indeed free, whereas UNIX is still the proprietary property of AT&T/Bell Labs. To read more on freebsd, you can go to http://www.freebsd.org as well as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD, that should give you sufficient information to move further. You might want to at least go read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_OpenServer to figure out where SCO UNIT stands which is not AT&T/Bell Labs UNIX nor is it FreeBSD. -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ > GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ------------------------------------------------------------------------