Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 14:32:55 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Donald Burr of Borg - http://www.borg-cube.com/" <dburr@borg-cube.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000308143045.04030e70@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4.3.0.20000308085724.00b0f000@mail.borg-cube.com>
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More to the point: What will be the effect on the ability of organizations other than BSD, Inc. to make and sell distributions of FreeBSD? Will the merged company now attempt to deny anyone else permission to use the letters "BSD" in a product name, for example? --Brett At 10:18 AM 3/8/2000 , Donald Burr of Borg - http://www.borg-cube.com/ wrote: >Ok, I'm sure by now that everyone has seen the "Walnut Creek is merging with BSDi" news, whether through Jordan's announcement or on /. or whatever. My personal opinion is "HELL YEAH!!!!" Both FreeBSD and BSDi can only stand to gain through this. And it will help quash the "Fragmented BSD" argument that those Linux weenies love to use. > >But I do have a concern, and it is an admittedly selfish and self-centered one. How will this affect committers, such as myself? Admittedly I haven't been doing much committing lately (there's been a LOT of weirdness has been going on in my life lately), but I have been working at getting back into things, slowly but surely. And I'd like to keep going at it :) > >* Will we have to renegotiate our contracts? Will there be new rules/regulations to > read? Will there be forms that I have to sign? Etc... >* What about the development tools? Will we still be using CVS, send-pr/GNATS, ssh > logins on freefall, etc.? >* And the mailing lists? Any change there? >* What about Ports? This is probably my biggest concern, as Ports is the area where I am > doing my work. >* Etc. > >That's what I want to know. :) > >- dburr (watching the /. trolls emerge from underneath their rocks and other slimy > places, wheeeee! :)) >-- >Donald Burr <dburr@borg-cube.com> Resistance is Futile | FreeBSD: The >WWW: http://www.borg-cube.com/ ICQ: UIN#16997506 | Power to >Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | Serve! http:// >Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | www.freebsd.org > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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