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<h2>BSD Community Welcomes Apple's New Open Source Operating System</h2>
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<p><b>Concord, CA, June 7, 1999</b>: Today, at the start of the UNIX
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development community's annual Usenix convention, operating system
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influentials embraced Apple Computer's Darwin (www.apple.com/darwin)
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as a new member of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)
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operating system family.</p>
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<p>"We're very pleased to have Apple's participation in the BSD
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community," said Jordan Hubbard, chairman of the USENIX convention's
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Freenix track and co-founder of the FreeBSD Project. "As more smart
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businesses discover the incredible free resource that is BSD software,
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they'll realize that contributing to open source development is in
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their best interest."</p>
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<p>According to Herb Peyerl of the NetBSD Project, "Our interaction with
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Apple on the Darwin project has been extremely rewarding for NetBSD
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and is the kind of open cooperation of which we would like to see
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more."</p>
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<p>"Leveraging the twenty-year BSD heritage allows Apple developers to
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concentrate on adding a unique user experience to the solid, robust
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foundation of the BSD code," according to Avie Tevanian, Apple
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Computer's senior vice president of Software Engineering. "We believe
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that by embracing the open source movement with our Darwin software,
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the result will be better products for millions of Mac customers
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worldwide. The BSD code in Darwin is an essential part of our
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operating system strategy."</p>
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<p>This type of reciprocation is a return to the original software
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development model that was universal in the early days of computing,
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before PCs. Wilfredo Sanchez, technical lead for the Darwin Project,
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will speak on Darwin at this week's Freenix track, a series of
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programs at Usenix devoted exclusively to this sort of open source
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software development.</p>
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<h3>About NetBSD and FreeBSD</h3>
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<p>NetBSD and FreeBSD are open source operating systems based on the last
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public release of BSD UNIX, 4.4BSDLite2. Each effort has kept up with
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the latest technologies in processors and software
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architectures. While having different priorities, the BSD development
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teams share a friendly competitive rivalry, spurring each other on to
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produce better product for their worldwide users. Over the twenty
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years of development, a huge base of software has been developed
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around BSD -- including much of the Internet infrastructure --
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enabling the OS to be used effectively in almost any computing
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application. The open development model means there are no secrets,
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creating a worldwide understanding of the code which enables BSD
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developers to build on the efforts of prior developers without the
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hassles endemic to proprietary operating systems and applications.</p>
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<h3>For More Information, Contact:</h3>
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<p>
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The FreeBSD Project<br>
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Concord, California<br>
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925-682-7859<br>
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<a href="mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org">
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freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org">http://www.FreeBSD.org</a><br>
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The NetBSD Project<br>
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C/O Charles M. Hannum<br>
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81 Bromfield Rd, #2<br>
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Somerville, MA 02144<br>
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<a href="mailto:mindshare@netbsd.org">mindshare@netbsd.org</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.netbsd.org">http://www.netbsd.org</a><br>
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