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When your team sort of grew up with FreeBSD (or any other OS) you want to lean that way. Also, when you're shipping an appliance you don't have to think about l
by kvs 17y ago
When your team sort of grew up with FreeBSD (or any other OS) you want to lean that way. Also, when you're shipping an appliance you don't have to think about licenses. Those are the two reasons we stick with FreeBSD.
- pavs 17y agoThanks. That makes sense. I am not familiar with limitations of GPL license over BSD license. What limitation does GPL license have that you don't have to worry about with BSD when deploying your app on a Linux server? Edit: Answered elsewhere. Thanks.
- jcsalterego 17y agoPrime example: NetApp uses (and contributes back to) FreeBSD. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1042664.htm http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1042664.htm (minor mention)