Other competitors in the healthcare sector include: Hologic, Inc. (HOLX), Theragenics (TGX), and BSD Medical Corporation (BSDM).

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Also in October, Hong Kong enacted a 15% buyer's stamp duty, or BSD, against home purchases by foreigners.

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While the two operating systems will retain certain unique features, they are nonetheless built on the same BSD Unix platform.

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Sanchez added that BSD code is arguably more stable than the more popular Linux OS, because the former has been around longer.

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Now that OS X is based on the industrial-strength Open BSD flavor of Unix, that won't happen nearly as much, if ever.

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The match was won by a team from Munich that chose not to attack, but instead fortified its machine with Free BSD tools.

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The ambiguities of the GNU Public license are responsible in part for Apple's lack of interest in developing for the many Linux distributions that are licensed under GPL. By contrast, said Sanchez, BSD groups do not demand that users of FreeBSD or NetBSD code contribute their innovations to the community, and are therefore more friendly to corporations.

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