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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!nsw1.news.telstra.net!sa.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.seinf.abb.se!erinews.ericsson.se!eua.ericsson.se!cnn.exu.ericsson.se!uunet!in3.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!main.put.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: FBSD Future... X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 21 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <DzBxuH.782@news2.new-york.net> References: <Dz37x9.7vC@news2.new-york.net> <53kr8l$pkt@newsbr.eunet.fr> <53vslp$83l@filth.well.com> X-Trace: 845403928/8863 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:25:29 GMT Borja Marcos (borjam@well.com) wrote: : Frederic MARAND (fgm@osinet.fr) wrote: : : le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: No,I wrote NONE of the following...this responded to my saying free OSes were generally supposed to be ahead of commercial. : : 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. : : Humm. I don't think so. Free OSs are MUCH better than the : majority of the commercial offering. (Just compare OS/2 or Windows 95 : to a free OS...) : : Regarding the SCO offer... I prefer FreeBSD to SCO Unix. : FreeBSD works great for me, and it has more advanced features.