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From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FBSD Future...
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 06:04:04 GMT
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le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote:

>Well,I see that the expected release of 2.2 has been pushed back from
>late summer '96 to first quarter '97,quite a jump,and I wonder what
>more there is to it past Walnut Creek's desire to keep the CDROMs
>semi-annual.
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.