From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 9 23:26:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D6F153AD; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 23:26:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA17905; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:24:55 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990909221237.04738870@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 22:16:18 -0600 To: Nik Clayton , "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Market share and platform support Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19990909081827.A39602@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <7196.936853710@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19990908203747.0463bd20@localhost> <7196.936853710@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:18 AM 9/9/99 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: >Could you do us a favour, and get on the phone to one another, or something, >and sort this out? Probably a good idea. >FWIW, and from this side of the pond, Brett's raised a couple of interesting >points re: Walnut Creek and their 'control' of FreeBSD, and what would happen >if, hypothetically, some other group were to put together a competing >distribution, and these points have occasionally cropped up at UK User >Group meetings. I know I'd like to know what WCs official stance on this >is. So would I. What's more, things should be set up in a way that makes it difficult for WC to renege. Making sure that the FreeBSD project is more independent of WC, and that the project leaders are not employees of WC but rather independent contractors (for copyright purposes, this is important) would be good places to start. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message