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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!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!torn!news1.bellglobal.com!bellglobal.com!c_chaos From: c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca (Andrew Costa) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 13 Apr 1997 15:25:56 GMT Organization: Haywire Engineering Lines: 20 Message-ID: <slrn5l1umv.2g1.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> References: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> <slrn5jm1c6.foh.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <3344cd56.1499074@news.sprynet.com> <slrn5k5u4d.ics.jason@verdi.jlc.net> <5ipsl6$i1v$1@halcyon.com> Reply-To: seagull@osiris.isys.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.101.235.20 X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:20139 comp.os.linux.misc:169535 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39003 In article <5ipsl6$i1v$1@halcyon.com>, Tim Smith wrote: >Jason T. Nelson <jason@verdi.jlc.net> wrote: >>Please tell me where I can obtain the source code to Windows95/NT so >>I may make a change to the way it functions in the same way I can >>change the functionality of the FreeBSD kernel (or Linux, for that >>matter). > >You get the source to Windows NT from Microsoft. I'm surprised you >couldn't figure that out yourself. I don't know how much it costs, >but it's probably a lot. Bloody fortune, I'd imagine, or alot of people would have it. And I'm sure the licencing terms will be an utter straightjacket. Linux and BSD (and Minix and VSTa and someday OpenDOS and...) provide complete source for free. Not only that, you can get the development tools for all but OpenDOS for free as well. There's no comparison.