From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Dec 3 13:40:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53A437B405 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 13:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB3Le2u58549; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 13:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 13:40:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200112032140.fB3Le2u58549@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Murray Stokely Subject: Re: docs/32470: Adding a Link to BSDMall.com Reply-To: Murray Stokely Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/32470; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Murray Stokely To: Wolfram Schneider Cc: Murray Stokely , freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Mike Barcroft Subject: Re: docs/32470: Adding a Link to BSDMall.com Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 13:39:34 -0800 --R3G7APHDIzY6R/pk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:03:56PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > 3th question: what is the status of the FreeBSDMall? Is=20 > www.freebsdmall.com still supported by WindRiver? ;) www.freebsdmall.com was around long before Wind River became interested in FreeBSD and it will be around long after Wind River has finished the divestment of FreeBSD. WRS announced that it was divesting its FreeBSD interests, and to that end it solicited proposals from a number of businesses in the FreeBSD and open-source arena to find the best home for the business. All of the proposals that were received were of a high quality but the successor company has not been identified yet. An announcement will be made once everything is official. For the moment, not even the employees know the names of the different companies involved. Regardless of which company is actually sponsoring the mall next month, the products and some number of the employees will continue to make and sell FreeBSD related products and services. In the last few weeks even, new products have been added to www.freebsdmall.com. =20 The FreeBSDMall still has boxed products at all of the major American computer retail stores (CompUSA, Fry's, etc) and is by several orders of magnitude the largest commercial distributor of FreeBSD software. Walnut Creek CDROM and BSDi donated hundreds of thousands of dollars of money and hardware to the FreeBSD Project and nothing is going to change as Wind River exits the business. If anything, the FreeBSDMall business will be going back to its roots as a Walnut Creek CDROM-like business more in touch with the community. I think thats about all I know at the moment. For the next several months I will still be employed by Wind River. Eventually a different name will be on my paychecks but I will still be doing the same job I've been doing since 1997 at Walnut Creek CDROM. - Murray --R3G7APHDIzY6R/pk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8C/EWtNcQog5FH30RAt5MAJ92UsK5S3zfR8uV37UL9DD3tXqS8ACgn7DD PyRFlbOUWNbV6U1A0OhApIo= =yZ8y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --R3G7APHDIzY6R/pk-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message