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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:15570 comp.unix.solaris:28305 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Unix for PC Date: 13 Dec 1994 16:52:48 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 39 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3ckjh0$gmq@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <199411210319.TAA18133@nic.cerf.net> <3cdkob$4t1@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3cfhlv$dbl@spruce.cic.net> <bryD0qAFn.4HF@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <bryD0qAFn.4HF@netcom.com>, Bryan Althaus <bry@netcom.com> wrote: >Paul Southworth (pauls@locust.cic.net) wrote: >We run Linux here as our internet gateway as well as Solaris, but Linux is >not trying to be the most state of the art OS, just a damn good OS. Solaris >on the other hand is trying to be a state of the art OS. I have no idea what >*BSD are trying to be, except trying to prove that BSD will live forever, >which someday they will relise is not the case. I doubt we'll *realize* that. :-) FreeBSD is trying to be a 'damn good OS', same as Linux. However, most of us are not GPL fanatics, and believe that if you are going to give something away, then give it totally away. However, since we are mostly prideful folk, we prefer that we at least get credit for writing when some commercial OS users our work. They can use it for *whatever* purpose they want, including sell binary copies and make a gazillion dollars from our work. [ No wars on whether it's right or wrong to do things that way, that's a *choice* the developers made, and it's our right to hold that *opinion* ] That and the fact the BSD is based on years of research and has proven to be very stable in almost all parts of the system makes BSD a great platform for being a 'damn good OS'. Feature for feature BSD is in the same league as Linux. There are areas where we are weak, and areas where we are strong, but as a whole we can match Linux. It's as much a contendor in the free OS field as any, and giving people options is never a bad thing. Competition (if it can be called that since nobody wins or loses anything) is always a good thing. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-5980 | Unemployed, looking for permanant work in home #: (406) 586-0579 | CS/EE field.