Date: 19 Jun 2000 13:35:42 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Kevin Lyons <klyons@corserv.corserv.com> Cc: giffunip@asme.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDi acquisition of Telenet Message-ID: <xzpem5tvr75.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Kevin Lyons's message of "Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:40:48 -0500 (CDT)" References: <200006091840.NAA02242@corserv.corserv.com>
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Kevin Lyons <klyons@corserv.corserv.com> writes: > > What BSDi is clearly trying to do is to broaden their revenue sources. > > The relation with other hardware distributors will continue as always: I > > haven't heard any Linux distributor complain about VA Linux. > The analogy is not the same. The comparison would be if VA had its own > brand of Linux and wanted Dell or someone else to ship them hardware > to test their brand of Linux. VA Linux is taking Linux, packaging it and selling it with hardware. BSDI (or Telenet) is taking FreeBSD, packaging it and selling it with hardware. What's the difference? What nobody seems to grasp here is that BSDI does not own FreeBSD. They just contribute to it, like everybody else - and they happen to own the trademark on the name, but that's expected to change soon. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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