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Re:Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software by mcguire on Thursday March 20, 2014 @12:48PM (#7436780)
"Yeah, SunOS forked from BSD. How is it doing these days compared to the open source versions?"

How is BSD doing compared to Linux? (Keeping in mind that BSD is officially something like 20 years older than Linux.) I wonder how much better it would be doing if it hadn't been forked so many times by so many really smart people in the 80's and 90's?

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Re:Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software by einhverfr on Friday March 21, 2014 @01:23AM (#7440790)
I can personally count the FreeBSD contributors in the LedgerSMB community. I don't know that firm counts are really possible but I would say FreeBSD ports were one of the first packages formally added (even before Debian).

It's hard to say for sure. However, from what I have seenof the FreeBSD community, they seem quite active and vibrant.

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