From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 10 18:36:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from jasper.nighttide.net (jasper.nighttide.net [216.227.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C7F737BBBC for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:36:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darren@nighttide.net) Received: from localhost (darren@localhost) by jasper.nighttide.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA24912 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:36:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:36:15 -0500 (EST) From: Darren Henderson To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? In-Reply-To: <20000311005257.D38803@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm not quite sure why some folks seem apprehensive about this business, am I missing something? Walnut Creek did not own FreeBSD, as much as anyone owns it the core does. WC was a major supporter of FreeBSD and helped it become what it is today. BSDi and WC have merged. Every indication is that not only does the new entity plan to continue its support of FreeBSD but to actually increase it and make the majority of BSDi's product available for inclussion in FreeBSD. Yes, if there is a sudden infux of commiters from what was once BSDi there could be a political shift in the direction the project takes. However, even if the very worst were to happen, everyone who holds a copy of the source is able to regroup and start afresh if needs be (and they can find the talent). The beauty of the license. I see a lot of good things in store for FreeBSD. -Darren ______________________________________________________________________ Darren Henderson darren@nighttide.net Help fight junk e-mail, visit http://www.cauce.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message