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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD VS BSDI, INC. Date: 17 Sep 1996 14:08:12 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <51m7rs$p7@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <51963f$2dr4@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <323A3293.5C66@wsg.net> <51drrm$5s0@typo.org> <51epqb$84b@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Patrick Leung (pleung@cs.buffalo.edu) wrote: : One thing that no one has mentioned so far is warranty. : BSDI is commerical product, and comes with warranty, while FreeBSD, as the : name suggest, is free and comes with NO warranty. : If your system suddenly screws up, corrupts some multi-million dollar : project you might have in your system, you can sue BSDI, : but you can NOT sue FreeBSD. ;-)) This is providing that you have : evidence that BSDI has some real system error that caused the screw up, and : it was not from misuse or abuse on your part. : This is one reason you MIGHT want to use a commerical UNIX system rather : than one that is free, such as FreeBSD or Linux. Hmmm, I suspect that pinning a law-suit on BSDI would be tricky. I don't know much about BSDI (I havn't used their OS for example), but the bit about having evidence that BSDI has some real system error sounds like proving that their scheduling model caused your problem..... a bit subjective. Insure yourself..... one way or another. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....