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