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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
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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.