From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 17:57:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snarf.osdn.com (snarf.osdn.com [209.192.217.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 486F837B440 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 17:57:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@osdn.com) Received: from guinness.osdn.com (root@cluck.stealthchickens.org [209.192.217.153]) by snarf.osdn.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f350vnL30401; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:57:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mij@osdn.com) Received: by guinness.osdn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AE2CA10C; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:57:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:57:47 -0400 From: Jim Mock To: David Xu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River Message-ID: <20010404205747.A14935@guinness.osdn.com> Reply-To: mij@osdn.com References: <101731842.20010405084557@21cn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <101731842.20010405084557@21cn.com>; from bsddiy@21cn.com on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 08:45:57AM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 - 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