Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:57:47 -0400 From: Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com> To: David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River Message-ID: <20010404205747.A14935@guinness.osdn.com> In-Reply-To: <101731842.20010405084557@21cn.com>; from bsddiy@21cn.com on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 08:45:57AM %2B0800 References: <101731842.20010405084557@21cn.com>
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On Thu, 05 Apr 2001 at 08:45:57 +0800, David Xu wrote: > Hello All, > > I know BSDi and FreeBSD have some very important relation. according > news letter, Wind River has interest in making proprietary closed > software. just want to know, will the acquisition hurt FreeBSD? No. If anything, it will help it. The BSD license allows Wind River to do whatever they want with the source, proprietary or not. In a nutshell, it just means that the people currently getting paid to work on FreeBSD will continue being paid to work on FreeBSD. As with BSDi, WR can't "take over" FreeBSD or the FreeBSD Project. It will remain FreeBSD and still be open source just like it's always been and will be, the developers on staff will just be getting checks from Wind River now instead of BSDi :-) - jim -- - jim mock <mij@osdn.com> - O|S|D|N - open source development network - - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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