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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!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news.he.net!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: 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: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 22:53:18 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3341D82E.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <333F45A6.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <5hplcv$6lf@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3340C3F0.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <5hrqmo$44f@fido.asd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38236 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6541 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29595 Steve Alexander wrote: > > I just find it interesting that from where I'm sitting, which is admittedly > pretty far removed, I don't see any compelling features in the BSD-derived > UNIX versions, except that they came from BSD at some point, which has very > little value for me personally. But since the last thing I want to do when I > go home is see UNIX, it's all just a thought exercise for me ;-> > Well, one positive thing is the free license vs. the GPL encumbered license. That is definitely starting to bear more fruit. It is really sad that if the *BSD groups folded that the only other viable alternatives are the commercial U**X implementations. The headaches (licensing probs, complexities with version management, costly self support of software from a diffuse group of software developers and searching around to create your own pseudo release to make up for the lack of organization) associated with certain other free (or GPL encumbered) U**X clones make them unimportant and irrelevent for many types of commercial use. John