From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 8 15:53:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B0F37B70F; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:53:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA28530; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 16:52:52 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA90aOK3; Wed Mar 8 16:52:46 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA15402; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 16:53:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200003082353.QAA15402@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? To: blk@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:53:22 +0000 (GMT) Cc: kris@hub.freebsd.org (Kris Kennaway), narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi), dburr@borg-cube.com (Donald Burr of Borg - http://www.borg-cube.com/), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Brad Knowles" at Mar 08, 2000 11:32:41 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ugh. Try again. > At 1:24 PM -0800 2000/3/8, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Unfortunately one of the other attendees didn't have as much > > self-restraint and spilled the beans on -stable a few days ago :-) > > I know, but after I told him what Jordan told me, it didn't seem > to go much further than that. ;-) If you think such a merger will benefit BSD in the long run, you should all quit discussing this. I realize there is a claim that Jordan spilled the beans on an immanent deal, but in the U.S., there is an S.E.C. mandated quiet period surrounding mergers and acquisitions, even of privately held companies, since there could be stock and equity exchanges involved, etc.. A lot of noise during this period can damage the deal. You should keep quiet, until the deal is announced by someone authoritative as being final and approved. Anything else is just gossip and speculation. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message