----- Original Message ---- > From: Siju George <[email protected]> > > Just Kidding, was a bit surprised when I stumbled upon it. > Resembles your name. > May be your inner instincts for BSD was telepathically resonated to him? > beleive your inner voice and migrate to BSD ;-) >
The latest BSD Magazine [http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1502-bsd-and-linux] has an article dedicated to stating differences between Linux and BSDs (page 50). Request you all to read it. Nothing big, just a small write-up. Non offensive. It clearly states: "FreeBSD is licensed under the BSD license. This is unrestrictive and gives _freedom_ in a way that if an individual or an organization used, improved, or modified your code, and made a proprietary software from it, the individual or ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ organization may or may not credit you. In my personal view, this is _true freedom_. Ubuntu on the other hand is licensed mostly under the GPL, which is very restrictive. It preserves and protects the _openness_ of the software." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ And to conclude: "In short, the difference between FreeBSD and Ubuntu is in the internals, kernel, startup scripts, ways of software installation including management and most system utilities and tools. The software and applications they use are both free and open source software (FOSS), which means gnome is gnome, kde is kde, firefox is firefox, for both FreeBSD and Ubuntu." Warm regards, Mahesh Aravind _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
