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FreeBSD Celebrates 25th Anniversary, Tuesday, June 19th

posted by takyon on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the still-free dept.

canopic jug writes:

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that the name FreeBSD turns 25 years old on 2018-06-19. The mailing list archives contain a thread about name selection with with a message containing the following suggestion

How about just simply "FreeBSD"? No confusion, no fuss, seems like a good compromise to me. :-)

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @03:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @03:41AM (#695436)

    Of course that is the license and not the operating system. Your patches can remain free and open. If you want to make a principled stand, you can license your patched version under the GPL.

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