From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 25 7:30:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526D637B406 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 07:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA87039; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:30:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Brad Knowles , Kevin Lyons , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: winDriver selling fbsd References: <200106250254.VAA26281@corserv.corserv.com> <20010625153535.A69225@lpt.ens.fr> <20010625161724.C69225@lpt.ens.fr> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 25 Jun 2001 16:30:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20010625161724.C69225@lpt.ens.fr> Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan writes: > Brad Knowles said on Jun 25, 2001 at 15:56:32: > > That's a good question. First off, they don't sell FreeBSD > > itself. BSDi didn't sell FreeBSD itself. Walnut Creek didn't sell > > FreeBSD itself. What they all have sold (and WindRiver continues to > > sell) are certain products related to FreeBSD. > That's a nitpick. It's like saying Red Hat doesn't sell Linux, but a > CD set relating to Linux. Bad analogy. RedHat have a *lot* more control and influence over the distro they sell (and even the Linux kernel itself) than either WC or BSDI ever had over FreeBSD. > True. But I don't think the correct reaction is to call the > questioners idiots. I did not! DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message