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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: 13 Mar 1997 10:38:49 -0800
Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
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:In article <5g90qg$aj6@innocence.interface-business.de>,
:J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> wrote:
:>fastbit@earthlink.net wrote:
:>
:>> Regarding the OS: the 6.2 IRIX is much, much better than 5.3 in terms of
:>> stability and performance especially when you use XFS file systems. No,
:>> you can't get the source code for it. SGI is a for-profit company, not
:>> a university or research organization that gives away free source code.
:>> Can you name any for-profit company that does ?
:>
:>BSDi.
:>
:>--
:>J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer
:>joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j
Being a for-profit company has little to do with making source
code available to one's customers. It's not as though IRIX is
state of the art any more... I think FreeBSD/BSDI is a much better
kernel for all the eyes that have looked and worked and commented on it.
FreeBSD has, frankly, a much more serious development team. They care
about security, they care about doing things the right way, they
care about keeping the core and surrounding utilities reasonably up
to date, about keeping their customers up to date, about fixing bugs
and security holes... one can call it a 'research system' all one likes,
but it doesn't change the fact that FreeBSD and BSDI are both serious
operating systems, both better supported and more professional then IRIX.
Being a for-profit company does not magically make a product better.
-Matt