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Building Products with FreeBSD
<email>jkoshy@FreeBSD.org</email>
<personname><firstname>Joseph</firstname><surname>Koshy</surname></personname><affiliation> <orgname>The FreeBSD Project</orgname> <_:address-1/> </affiliation>
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of the FreeBSD Foundation.
Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document, and the FreeBSD Project was aware of the trademark claim, the designations have been followed by the <quote>™</quote> or the <quote>®</quote> symbol.
$FreeBSD: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/building-products/article.xml 54253 2020-06-14 08:10:06Z carlavilla $
Abstract
The FreeBSD project is a worldwide, volunteer based, and collaborative project, which develops a portable and high-quality operating system. The FreeBSD project distributes the source code for its product under a liberal license, with the intention of encouraging the use of its code. Collaborating with the FreeBSD project can help organizations reduce their time to market, reduce engineering costs and improve their product quality.
This article examines the issues in using FreeBSD code in appliances and software products. It highlights the characteristics of FreeBSD that make it an excellent substrate for product development. The article concludes by suggesting a few <quote>best practices</quote> for organizations collaborating with the FreeBSD project.
Introduction
FreeBSD today is well-known as a high-performance server operating system. It is deployed on millions of web servers and internet-facing hosts worldwide. FreeBSD code also forms an integral part of many products, ranging from appliances such as network routers, firewalls, and storage devices, to personal computers. Portions of FreeBSD have also been used in commercial shrink-wrapped software (see <xref linkend="freebsd-intro"/>).
In this article we look at the <link xlink:href="@@URL_RELPREFIX@@/">FreeBSD project</link> as a software engineering resource—as a collection of building blocks and processes which you can use to build products.
While FreeBSD's source is distributed freely to the public, to fully enjoy the benefits of the project's work, organizations need to <emphasis>collaborate</emphasis> with the project. In subsequent sections of this article we discuss effective means of collaboration with the project and the pitfalls that need to be avoided while doing so.
Caveat Reader
The author believes that the characteristics of the FreeBSD Project listed in this article were substantially true at the time the article was conceived and written (2005). However, the reader should keep in mind that the practices and processes used by open-source communities can change over time, and that the information in this article should therefore be taken as indicative rather than normative.
Target Audience
This document would be of interest to the following broad groups of people:
Decision makers in product companies looking at ways to improve their product quality, reduce their time to market and lower engineering costs in the long term.
Technology consultants looking for best-practices in leveraging <quote>open-source</quote>.
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Translated FreeBSD Doc/articles_solid-state FreeBSD is a registered trademark of the FreeBSD Foundation.
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Translated FreeBSD Doc/articles_linux-users FreeBSD is a registered trademark of the FreeBSD Foundation.
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