"The goals of the FreeBSD Project are to provide software that may be used for any purpose and without strings attached. Many of us have a significant investment in the code (and project) and would certainly not mind a little financial compensation now and then, but we are definitely not prepared to insist on it. We believe that our first and foremost "mission" is to provide code to any and all comers, and for whatever purpose, so that the code gets the widest possible use and provides the widest possible benefit. This is, I believe, one of the most fundamental goals of Free Software[,] and one that we enthusiastically support."
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FreeBSD is a free, open-source, Unix-like operating system that has been developed and maintained since 1992, when it was forked from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). BSD was, in turn, developed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, using the licensed source-code of AT&T's Research Unix.
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