From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 25 8: 4:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mothra.ecs.csus.edu (mothra.ecs.csus.edu [130.86.76.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F096B37B6A4 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:03:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mothra.ecs.csus.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0PFxn093411; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:59:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph@randomnetworks.com) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:59:49 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Scott X-X-Sender: To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: Subject: Re: Open Source Development Laboratory ... In-Reply-To: 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 On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote: # # Is this something that FreeBSD/BSDi are/is looking at becoming a member # of, or is this something that is purely a Linux thing? # # http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010123S0019 There is also a mention of this on /. that I noticed. After a quick look around their site I came across their mission statement : "OSDL provides Open Source developers with the computing resources needed to build data center and telco class enhancements into Linux and its Open Source software stack, enabling Linux to become the leading Operating System for e-Business development and deployment." I wrote them explaining that their name was misleading if this was their only goal. The reasoning was that there are more Open Source projects out there, not to mention os's, than Linux. So either their name should be changed to "Linux Development Labs" or their mission statement should be redone. I haven't heard anything back yet. -Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message