From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 11 8:43:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ct.home.com [24.2.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D5B37BBF2 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 08:43:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tsikora@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.2.168.186]) by mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <20000311164345.TYMR24587.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@home.com> for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 08:43:45 -0800 Message-ID: <38CA7790.8B31B082@home.com> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:42:56 -0500 From: Ted Sikora Organization: Jtl Development X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.15pre13 i686) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead ? References: <200003101908.LAA25425@implode.root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Greenman wrote: > > >>I fail to see how you can read anything bad into this announcement. If > >>you're really concerned, you have just as much right to the code as any > >>one else, feel free to take the 4.0 code base and create your own system. > >>BSDidier has a nice ring to it. > >> > >>Personally, I've been running FreeBSD since 1.0, and I'll be sticking > >>with it for quite some time to come. > > > >Ever read Animal Farm? Remember that BSD/OS started out as "cheap with > >source" and grew into "just another OS company". Good ideas can turn bad > >very quickly. > > The is all just FUD. From the FreeBSD side of things, BSDI is going to > opensource a bunch of their software that we can then integrate into FreeBSD. > We're still very much in control of the FreeBSD development effort and what > fundamentally comprises FreeBSD. In fact nothing really changes as far as > the FreeBSD Project is concerned - it's the same core team, the same > developers, and the same BSD-license source code. It's just as "free" as ever, > and nothing is going to change that. BSDI may decide not to make all of their > BSD/OS open-sourced, but that's their decision and that will in no way > deminish what we have in FreeBSD today. > As others have said, this is a win for everyone and will result in FreeBSD > being a much better open-source OS in the future. I really hope that people > will go and read the various press releases and look at this in an objective > and rational frame of mind. If you do, then there is only one conclusion that > you can get from the facts: This is a great thing for FreeBSD and our future > couldn't be brighter. I am sure of the FreeBSD Projects intentions but like the previous post things can 'turn ugly fast with the greatest intentions' The fact a for-profit company controlling it's movements is cause for concern. (mozilla comes to mind) I use BSDI and love their products but what happens when it continues to stagnate. I see this as a way to boost their own flagship product only? at FreeBSD's expense. I may be wrong but already I see my other favorite OS Slackware teetering on the edge of obscurity. I wish them the best. Regards, -- Ted Sikora Jtl Development Group tsikora@powerusersbbs.com http://powerusersbbs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message