7 Addenda

1. See also http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html for a brief history.

2. For a fairly unbiased view of the merits of each license, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_and_GPL_licensing.

3. Using FreeBSD's ports collection: software installation is as easy as pkg_add -r application_name.

4. In addition, all code is browsable through a web-interface: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/.

5. An interesting overview of the evolving Linux development model can be found at http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4155251624.html.