From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 17 17:42:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mls.gtonet.net (mls.gtonet.net [216.112.90.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A8B37B423 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:42:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oldfart@gtonet.net) Received: from pld (pld.gtonet.net [216.112.90.200]) by mls.gtonet.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3I0gcS13438 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:42:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oldfart@gtonet.net) Reply-To: From: "oldfart@gtonet" To: Subject: RE: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:42:36 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-To: <3ADCDCA7.A01F5F40@acuson.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nothing personal but I say, "good riddance" to ANYTHING Linux. IMHO, OF > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Johnson > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 5:16 PM > To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD > > > Today's announcement of the abandonment of Slackware caught me by > surprise. All Slackware employees laid off. Slackware was *profitable* > for Walnut Creek and BSDi. I think they've lost more in good will than > they will gain. That, plus some blatant GPL baiting, makes Windriver > pretty slimy. > > So, how is FreeBSD going to fare? Will they be canned as well? Will they > try to distance themselves from Windriver? I think it would serve > Windriver right if Slackware, FreeBSD and the ftp.freesoftware.com > people upped, left, and started over with their own company. > > David > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message