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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:32:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
To: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead ?(NO)
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Paul Richards wrote:

> It's interesting that everyone is jumping up and down worrying about the
> effect that the merger between BSDI and WC will have. As you say, in
> *theory* FreeBSD has nothing to do with WC and is a totally independent
> project.
> 
> In practice however WC has manoeuvered their market position over the
> last few years to be the "FreeBSD company" rather than a seller of
> cdroms. It's worth noting that BSDI isn't merging with WC because they
> need a cdrom division, they're merging with WC because to all intents
> and purposes they own many of the assets of the FreeBSD project. Most of
> the resources of the project are held by WC and a fair number of the key
> developers are on the payroll.

I do hope that BSDI doesn't minimize that part of WC; a lot of WC's other
cdroms are really nice ones.

Anyhow, guys, you're handling this thing with the paranoid crowd all
wrong.  We need to post this notice on Hackers:

NOTICE:

We know who you are!  Anyone making strange, baseless accusations about a
very unlikely BSDI conspiracy, we're going to put you on a List!  A VERY
SECRET list.  We won't tell you who's on the List!  Please post about it
again, so we can get your names!  The CIA will get this List!  The US Post
Office will get this List!

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Chuck Robey            | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD,
chuckr@picnic.mat.net  | electronics, communications, and signal processing.

New Year's Resolution:  I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up
fictitious words in the dictionary.
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