Yes, FreeBSD does use different licenses.  Most BSD licenses do. They run off
a BSD license and is much different then GPL.

Meanwhile, the fact that Micro$HAFT has to rely on a *nix machine period is a
victory for OpenSource period!
tdh

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| er, i don't wish to be pedantic but i believe that hotmail is using some 
| freebsd installations which i believe (could be misinformed) have different 
| licence situation than linux? i don't think linux should claim ground that 
| isn't strictly it's own, i wouldn't have thought that this would serve 'the 
| cause' 
| 
| flame me if i'm wrong :-)
| bascule
| 
| 
| haveOn Tuesday 26 June 2001  9:00 pm, you wrote:
| > Edward Barrow wrote:
| > > It was also built and runs on Linux (MS are embarrassed by this and plan
| > > to migrate it to W2K, I don't know if they've done so yet)
| >
| > It will probably stop working when they do.
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