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Date:      Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:51:28 +0200
From:      Dennis Koegel <amf@hobbit.neveragain.de>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GPL vs BSD Licence
Message-ID:  <20041026065128.GA14982@neveragain.de>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEIKEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <20041025082051.GB16445@neveragain.de> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEIKEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:32:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > Because Juniper, for example [...]
> 
> You do realize, don't you, that the interesting part of a Juniper
> is the microcode in their DSP routing engine.  FreeBSD is only used
> to control the routing engine in a Juniper router, it isn't used AS
> the routing engine.

Of course I do realize that. It was merely an example, apparently not
the best one. It's their choice to do or don't, that's all I said.

(For terminology: The i386 part with FreeBSD is the routing engine, the
awesome hardware is the forwarding engine).

And now I need to digest this Linksys + Zebra mixture... ;-)



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