From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 8 17:47:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A125E37B71F for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:47:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA29122; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:47:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000608184610.0494c900@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 18:46:56 -0600 To: Kevin Lyons , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: BSDi acquisition of Telenet In-Reply-To: <200006090054.TAA01053@corserv.corserv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Why not ask Kirk et al what they have in mind? They've never been so secretive as not to discuss such things. --Brett At 06:54 PM 6/8/2000, Kevin Lyons wrote: >Is anyone concerned about the impact of BSDi's acquisition of Telenet >systems? Ordinarily, I doubt it would matter, but taken in conjunction >with the merger of BSDi and Walnut Creek, one wonders if hardware >manufacturers such as Dell, Micron, etc. will be as willing to provide >FreeBSD Inc. with sample/development hardware. > >I guess from Kirk's standpoint at BSDi, I can't blame him. BSDi was >trying to sell BSD/OS and Internet Super Server for umpteen thousand >dollars when FreeBSD is essentially free and supports more hardware >with an incredible hardware expansion program going on. BSDi may feel >that the only way they can make money and stay viable is to start selling >hardware. But the merger between Walnut Creek and BSDi is still puzzling. >Jordan and friends at FreeBSD Inc. would, I hope, reject any interference >in licensing or distribution attempts made by BSDi. After all, FreeBSD >is composed of multiple independant developers who could easily move from >Walnut Creek's CVS servers and distribution (as evidenced by NetBSD) if >forced to. > >Am I the only one wondering about this? Maybe someone higher up in the >BSD kingdom and familiar with the politics can illuminate the merger and >acquisition. > >Kevin Lyons > >- >/.sigs take up bandwidth > > > >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