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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!nntp.primenet.com!mr.net!news-out.microserve.net!news-in.microserve.net!news.sgi.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-hub3.barrnet.net!mars.hyperk.com!darkstar!cmott From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD VS BSDI, INC. Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 03:11:40 -0600 Organization: SRVnet, Inc. Lines: 36 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960918030731.180A-100000@darkstar> References: <51963f$2dr4@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <323A3293.5C66@wsg.net> <51drrm$5s0@typo.org> <51epqb$84b@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> <51m7rs$p7@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: ras80.srv.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: cmott@darkstar In-Reply-To: <51m7rs$p7@anorak.coverform.lan> On 17 Sep 1996, Brian Somers wrote: > Patrick Leung (pleung@cs.buffalo.edu) wrote: > : One thing that no one has mentioned so far is warranty. > : BSDI is commerical product, and comes with warranty, while FreeBSD, as the > : name suggest, is free and comes with NO warranty. > > : If your system suddenly screws up, corrupts some multi-million dollar > : project you might have in your system, you can sue BSDI, > : but you can NOT sue FreeBSD. ;-)) This is providing that you have > : evidence that BSDI has some real system error that caused the screw up, and > : it was not from misuse or abuse on your part. > > : This is one reason you MIGHT want to use a commerical UNIX system rather > : than one that is free, such as FreeBSD or Linux. It appears that Patrick has a rather defective view of how our legal system should properly work. Perhaps he watches too much television. Perhaps our laywers and judges are often also guilty of sloppy thinking. > > Hmmm, I suspect that pinning a law-suit on BSDI would be tricky. I > don't know much about BSDI (I havn't used their OS for example), but > the bit about having evidence that BSDI has some real system error sounds > like proving that their scheduling model caused your problem..... a > bit subjective. > > Insure yourself..... one way or another. > > -- > Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > >