From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 10:11:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F11AC37B423 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:11:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vcardona@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010410171151.RIOS27625.femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum>; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:11:51 -0700 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f3AHFSp13243; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:15:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:15:28 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: John Baxter Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions'" Subject: Re: BSDi and FreeBSD sold?!? Message-ID: <20010410121528.B13188@marx.marvic.chum> References: <004d01c0c1d1$709ae960$0e00000a@tomcat> <000701c0c1d9$65ca3ab0$2e9c88d0@wheezer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <000701c0c1d9$65ca3ab0$2e9c88d0@wheezer>; from jlb@xsequor.com on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:15:01AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:15:01AM -0500, John Baxter wrote: > I am sure this is an old topic for most, but I am new to FreeBSD and I am > wondering. > I thought FreeBSD was free, how can a company buy it? What is the future of > FreeBSD? > It seems to me someone who 'buys' something has their own purpose for it. FreeBSD was not sold. BSDi sold its software division to Wind River. In other words, they sold their proprietary BSD/OS. The only obvious change will be when you order a box set of FreeBSD, and it has Wind River's logo instead of BSDi's. - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message