On 13/12/2011 14:46, LinuxIsOne wrote: > Is freebsd simply bsd name, means it is free so they appended the word > 'free' is it like this?
Yes, it is really BSD: it is the direct lineal descendant of Unix code released by the University of California, Berkeley. The beginnings of the FreeBSD project were based on the 386BSD code that ultimately came out of BSD 4.3 and 4.4. See here, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.svg "Free" in the sense of "available to use in any way the user may see fit and without onerous licensing terms or fees" -- that's implicit in the BSD part of the name[*]. Still, no harm in repeating ourselves. Besides, it was necessary to distinguish this project from NetBSD and later OpenBSD (plus various other more recent BSD variants). Cheers, Matthew [*] Although you can still be BSD, even under commercial licensing terms and closed source, but in that case, the name tends not to contain those letters. eg. SunOS (before v5), NeXTSTEP, MacOS X. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW
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