Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:56:32 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Kevin Lyons <klyons@corserv.corserv.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: winDriver selling fbsd Message-ID: <p05100317b75cef8f05b4@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <20010625153535.A69225@lpt.ens.fr> References: <200106250254.VAA26281@corserv.corserv.com> <xzpbsnd184p.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010625153535.A69225@lpt.ens.fr>
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At 3:35 PM +0200 6/25/01, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > I think the comment is quite valid, in any case. Why isn't FreeBSD > listed in the main product listing at www.wrs.com, when 83 other > products are? That's a good question. First off, they don't sell FreeBSD itself. BSDi didn't sell FreeBSD itself. Walnut Creek didn't sell FreeBSD itself. What they all have sold (and WindRiver continues to sell) are certain products related to FreeBSD. One of which is a four-CD set, including the standard FreeBSD first CD (the ISO image for which is freely available on the 'net), plus three more proprietary CDs that they've put together. Other products include the FreeBSD Handbook, and the Complete FreeBSD book by Greg Lehey. Moreover, if you go to the FreeBSDmall site, it is clear that they have now been bought by WindRiver, and there's even a FAQ page, etc.... In addition, if you recall recent discussions on this list regarding an e-mail message that WindRiver recently sent out to a lot of people registered through FreeBSDmall, it should be fairly clear that they consider this the place where FreeBSD and FreeBSD-related stuff is sold. Looking at the WindRiver home page, I don't see either BSD/OS or FreeBSD anywhere on the page, except on the last "news" item dated Apr-04-2001, regarding their acquisition of the software assets of BSDi (among others). It's not until you go down to the exhaustive alphabetical product directory at <http://www.windriver.com/products/html/directory.html>; that I can find any mention of BSD/OS as a product. The only thing I can assume is that since they don't consider themselves to be selling FreeBSD per se, but instead products related to FreeBSD (which happens on the same FreeBSDmall site that has been in use for a while), they figured they either didn't need, or that it wouldn't be appropriate to have, FreeBSD itself listed as a product of the company. Or maybe it just accidentally slipped through the cracks. > Methinks many people are excessively touchy about any WindRiver-related > question. There may be some that fit that definition. Overall, I'd have to say that the attitude is more one of "Hey, give 'em a break, at least for a while". -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net> */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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