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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>,
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Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers?
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 
> Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes:
> > The point is that, if a driver already exists in BSDI, and FreeBSD
> > becomes the public shadow of the BSDI source tree, there is very
> > little incentive to write a new driver among volunteers, because
> > the job has already been done, and there are interesting things to
> > write that haven't yet been done.
> 
> Why would FreeBSD become the public shadow of the BSDI source tree?
> From what I've read about the merger, the reverse (BSDI becoming the
> commercial shadow of FreeBSD) is more likely.
> 
> Let me spell it out for you: BSDI WILL NOT CONTROL FREEBSD.
> 
> Nobody can take arbitrary control of FreeBSD. It's open source. Even
> if Jordan, David & co. were to "sell out" to BSDI today, they couldn't
> stop committers from finding another place to host the project and
> carry on with its development. The worst they can do is stop us from
> using the name.

Umm, that's more than a little ridiculous.

Nobody can stop anyone taking the codebase and lauching another project.
If "Jordan, David & co" stop you using the name then what you're doing
is setting up a competing project not taking the project somewhere else.

Paul.


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