From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 17 17:15:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA5B37B422 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:15:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA13BE for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:21:02 -0700 Message-ID: <3ADCDCA7.A01F5F40@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:15:35 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today's announcement of the abandonment of Slackware caught me by surprise. All Slackware employees laid off. Slackware was *profitable* for Walnut Creek and BSDi. I think they've lost more in good will than they will gain. That, plus some blatant GPL baiting, makes Windriver pretty slimy. So, how is FreeBSD going to fare? Will they be canned as well? Will they try to distance themselves from Windriver? I think it would serve Windriver right if Slackware, FreeBSD and the ftp.freesoftware.com people upped, left, and started over with their own company. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message