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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: BSDI vs FreeBSD
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 14:14:43 GMT

5150 (5150) wrote:
: lidl@va.pubnix.com (Kurt J. Lidl) wrote:
: 
: > How about a fair comparision next time?
: 
: OK, how 'bout this one:
: 
: BSDI costs a thousand fucking dollars for a measly 1 node/10 user
: license. Worse than NT Server, for chrissakes.
: 
: FreeBSD costs zero for unlimited nodes, unlimited users, unlimited
: time.

Unless, of course, you've had a license long enough to be grandfathered
into much cheaper pricing.  :-)

I use both FreeBSD and BSDI here.  They both have their good/bad points.
If you need a lot of support, or you need to run commercial programs
that are only distributed in binary form, you'll probably like BSDI a
bit more.

Regards,

Chris
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