Re: O'Reilly Network: Is BSD Taking the Spotlight Away From Linux? [April 12, 2001]

[Prakash Advani <prakash@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Legally speaking Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE are all commercial companies
with open source softwares. VS Microsoft, Adobe, etc which are Closed
Source and Commercial companies.

Regards
Prakash

Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:00:55PM +0530, Raju Mathur merrily said:
> > Sounds more like the death-knell of BSD to me.  Now that BSD
> > proponents are being hired and software rights sold by companies which
> > have direct vested commercial interests I can see another MS monolith
> > in the making...
> 
> Huh???? I thought out here, one commercial company bought another
> commercial company??? BSDi earlier has been as commercial as any other
> Unix vendor ... that hasn't made Slackware and FreeBSD any less free
> ...
> 
> And as far as Linux is concerned, I still see that the top 3-4
> distribs as all commercial ones ...
> 
> - Sandip
> 
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