From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 11 9:49:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE5337BCC8 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:49:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA93941; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: jegjr@erols.com Cc: Wes Peters , Didier Derny , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Mar 2000 08:52:02 EST." <00031109145000.25510@deinonychus.erols.com> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:50:02 -0800 Message-ID: <93937.952797002@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > FreeBSD.org website, I quote the following, "BSDI will continue to > distribute packaged versions of FreeBSD...." Is this another way of saying > that in the future that the distribution of FreeBSD may take on the Sun model > for their "free" operating system software, which you pay $$$ for the media, and > it is not freely downloadable from the net nor freely distributable? No, it is not another way of saying that. In fact, in other press announcements BSDI has been very clear in saying that it will offer the SAME degree of support that Walnut Creek CDROM did, and that includes making it available for download. Heck, if we stopped doing that I can also tell you exactly what would happen: Someone else would start making ISO images and putting them up on the net and CheapBYTES, who already sells CDs very cheaply, would make even more money. The FreeBSD genie is out of the bottle and has been for over 7 years now. Any attempts to put it back in are doomed to failure and everyone at BSDI knows this very well already. Do you folks honestly think I haven't covered this in great detail in our pre-merger discussions already? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message