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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.thenet.net!news1.best.com!noos.hooked.net!news.well.com!borjam From: borjam@well.com (Borja Marcos) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FBSD Future... Date: 15 Oct 1996 11:31:05 GMT Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 19 Message-ID: <53vslp$83l@filth.well.com> References: <Dz37x9.7vC@news2.new-york.net> <53kr8l$pkt@newsbr.eunet.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: well.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Frederic MARAND (fgm@osinet.fr) wrote: : le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: : Remember SCO now offers a free license of its Open Server for : personal, study, research. : I think this will probably diminish the needs of many FreeBSD/Linux : users to get these OSes: only people really wishing to tinker with : kernel code will stick to the really free OSes. Most people run them : to get unix apps running, not for the sake of debugging kernels. Humm. I don't think so. Free OSs are MUCH better than the majority of the commercial offering. (Just compare OS/2 or Windows 95 to a free OS...) Regarding the SCO offer... I prefer FreeBSD to SCO Unix. FreeBSD works great for me, and it has more advanced features. Borja.