From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 18 14: 8:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ra.upan.org (ra.upan.org [204.107.76.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CFFB37B43C for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:08:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikel@ocsinternet.com) Received: from ocsinternet.com (thoth.upan.org [204.107.76.16]) by ra.upan.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3IL7wZ11083 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:07:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mikel@ocsinternet.com) Message-ID: <3ADE045C.3B9304D8@ocsinternet.com> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:17:16 -0400 From: Mikel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD References: <3ADCDCA7.A01F5F40@acuson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Of course this issue does concern all of us who advocate the various uses of fBSD. And in as much as I doubt that much will occur to change the free usage of fBSD or even the free access to resources relating to fBSD. I feel quite confident that we as a community will come together and make what ever resources available that would be required to maintain the myriad of web, cvs, and ftp servers. I am absolutely sure that there we are an amazingly resilient community, and that we will not let fBSD be diverted, nor abused... I can guarantee that if things were to dissolve between the fBSD crew and IX Systems, there would be no shortage of offers for co-location space, connectivity and the like so that the fBSD project will continue on. I know of one concrete offer already and the project need say the word and it will be done. Cheers, Mikel David Johnson wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message