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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 02:01:19 +0200
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware
Subject: my shareware and freeware
Hi,
As I became a part-time hacker by trying to go from OSS to shareware,
and posting here the OSS as freeware, I am not going to program
freeware anymore solely.
I'd like to ask if there are some opinions on this as to switch
systems. In the sense of for example making freeware demos
of the shareware etc. Normally the source can almost not get
disclosed.
Then, I read both FAQs of a.c.shareware.programmer and this newsgroup
and came to the conclusion of just having a 30 day trial which
is somewhat colliding with the demos.
If anything comes to mind e.g. also for key systems such as OpenSSH,
I'd like to hear it.
HAND,
Zara
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD
reeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from
the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version of FreeBSD was
released in 1993 developed from 386BSD[3] and the current version runs on
IA-32, x86-64, ARM, PowerPC and RISC-V processors. The project is supported
and promoted by the FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD maintains a complete system, delivering a kernel, device drivers,
userland utilities, and documentation, as opposed to Linux only delivering
a kernel and drivers, and relying on third-parties such as GNU for system
software.[4] The FreeBSD source code is generally released under a
permissive BSD license, as opposed to the copyleft GPL used by Linux.
The FreeBSD project includes a security team overseeing all software
shipped in the base distribution. A wide range of additional third-party
applications may be installed from binary packages using the pkg package
management system or from source via FreeBSD Ports,[5] or by manually
compiling source code.
As of 2005, FreeBSD was the most popular open-source BSD operating system,
accounting for more than three-quarters of all installed and permissively
licensed BSD systems.[6] Much of FreeBSD's codebase has become an integral
part of other operating systems such as Darwin (the basis for macOS, iOS,
iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS), TrueNAS (an open-source NAS/SAN operating
system), and the system software for the PlayStation 3[7][8] and
PlayStation 4[9] game consoles. The other BSD systems (OpenBSD, NetBSD,
and DragonFly BSD) also contain a large amount of FreeBSD code, and
vice-versa.[citation needed]
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Official website
https://www.freebsd.org/
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=openssh
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http://www.openssh.com/
OpenSSH is a suite of tools for encrypted communication over the SSH
protocol. It offers remote operations, key management, service side,
and more features under a BSD-style license.
[end quoted excerpts]
someone mentioned "darwin" . . .