From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 10:31:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alto.i-cable.com (alto.i-cable.com [210.80.60.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F6937B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:31:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lkthomas@hkicable.com) Received: from thomasq1rx10yf ([61.18.16.156]) by alto.i-cable.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA06100; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 01:31:59 +0800 (HKT) From: "Thomas Lau" To: "'Victor R. Cardona'" Cc: Subject: RE: BSDi and FreeBSD sold?!? Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 01:33:19 +0800 Message-ID: <000401c0c1e4$55e18080$9c10123d@thomasq1rx10yf> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <20010410121528.B13188@marx.marvic.chum> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What new program was added in BSDi ? -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Victor R. Cardona Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:15 AM To: John Baxter Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' Subject: Re: BSDi and FreeBSD sold?!? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message