From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 25 13:21:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C83A137B404; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:20:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0PLKtB67179; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:20:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:20:55 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Mike Smith Cc: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-core@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open Source Development Laboratory ... In-Reply-To: <200101252029.f0PKTf801281@mass.dis.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 On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Mike Smith 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 > > It's purely a Linux thing. BSDi tried to get involved in a couple of > that sort of thing, and I've been putting my oar in where I could, but > the combined lack of manpower and lack of funding has prettymuch left us > out in the cold. 8( BTW, the CNN article includes a quote that might be worth following up on: According to OSDL Lab Director Tim Witham, "anybody developing under an open-source license can use the lab on a first-come, first-served basis. http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/computing/01/25/linux.lab.idg/index.html Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message