From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 13 17:46:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C2CE37BF45 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:46:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA03661; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:41:10 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003140141.RAA03661@implode.root.com> To: Brett Glass Cc: Brad Knowles , Doug Barton , Paul Richards , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:18:05 MST." <4.2.2.20000313140446.041df3d0@localhost> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:41:10 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >At 01:38 PM 3/13/2000 , Brad Knowles wrote: > >> Consider that the bulk of the FreeBSD Core Team probably works for Walnut Creek, and there is likely to be no conflict here. > >Yes, there is a BIG conflict. Many key authors of FreeBSD, past and present, made >their contributions with the understanding that they were not working for the >benefit of one company -- Walnut Creek -- but rather for the good of anyone >who wanted to use the code. I'm not reading 95% of this discussion, but since this was at the top it caught my eye. Currently, 2 out of 16 core members have income from ("work for") Walnut Creek CDROM. Of those 2, only one (Jordan) is an employee. This is hardly the "bulk of the FreeBSD Core Team". The trademark is and always has been in our control, even though Walnut Creek CDROM is the trademark holder. The only reason why WC CDROM has the trademark in the first place was because they were the only legal entity that we trusted to hold it until we had our own legal entity to transfer it to. It sure would be nice if all of this wild speculation would stop since it is so far from reality that it only serves to confuse people with all of the disinformation. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message