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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers why are some unix versions licensed ? Post 21965 by Neo on Friday 24th of May 2002 07:51:03 PM
Old 05-24-2002
There is really nothing "better or special" about the vast majority of licensed UNIX operating systems compared to unlicensed versions.... HOWEVER keep in mind that most unlicensed software is really licensed under some general use license, like the GPL...

on the other hand, software companies that have large support staff to support their software need to license their software. Many large businesses must operate using a model that outsources technical support and cannot easily operate with unlicensed software. For example, if you are a very large company and use unlicensed, free software that someone just 'pulled from the net' and something went wrong (like a major security breach) that costs the large company millions of dollars, the large company need to be able to pass some or all of the 'blame' or 'liability' to the software vendor.

There are other variations on this theme..... all have to do with how companies manage operational risk. As always, the bottom line is about business ($$$) and politics (blame, liability, other similar issues).

Hope this helps a bit.

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

british-english-large

british-english-large(5)					   Users' Manual					  british-english-large(5)

NAME

       british-english-large - a list of English words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/british-english-large is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       There  may  be  any  number  of	word lists in /usr/share/dict/.  /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen
       /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and  is  the  name  by  which
       other  software should refer to the system word list.  See select-default-wordlist(8) for more information, and/or to change the currently-
       chosen word list.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french
       and  /usr/share/dict/danish  contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.  Such lists should be coded using the ISO
       8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

       The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does  not
       exist.

AUTHOR

       Word  lists  are  collected and maintained by various authors.  The Debian English word lists are built from the SCOWL (Spell- Checker Ori-
       ented Word Lists) package, whose upstream editor is Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.

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