From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 18 17: 3:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A65537B407 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murray@meow.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from murray@localhost) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) id f6J02mM13462; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:02:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murray) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:02:48 -0700 From: Murray Stokely To: Darryl Okahata Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE scheduled for August 30th, 2001 Message-ID: <20010718170248.I11855@meow.osd.bsdi.com> References: <20010718131736L.jkh@freebsd.org> <200107182127.OAA02716@mina.soco.agilent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200107182127.OAA02716@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:27:52PM -0700 X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:27:52PM -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Going off on a slight tangent, has any progress been made on having > another CDROM vendor (or is WindRiver staying in the business for now)? WindRiver is definitely staying in the business of selling FreeBSD products and services. The problems with FreeBSDMall were unfortunate but to a large degree they could also be expected with any merger of this size where a complete production and fulfillment center is being relocated. One month of operational difficulties should say nothing negative about the company's commitment to the FreeBSD community. This Fall there will be new FreeBSD products on the shelves of CompUSA, Frys, Best Buy, etc. There will be a 2nd Edition of the Handbook on the shelves of Barnes and Noble. Wind River paid for FreeBSD developers to attend Usenix, the O'Reilly Doc Summit / Open Source Convention, and many other events throughout the year. WRS will also have a big presence at BSDCon this year. The contributions that BSDi made to the FreeBSD Project were well documented in the -hackers thread a couple of weeks ago, and NONE of that is changing under WRS. Money spent on products from WRS directly funds many activities in the BSD community and it would take a very long time for someone to convince me that there is another CDROM vendor that is doing more for the FreeBSD Project than WRS is doing. - Murray Stokely FreeBSD Engineer, Wind River Systems p.s. It's my understanding that all of the developer CDs have gone out and that most of our fulfillment problems are over. If you are still having order difficulties then by all means, send your complaint directly to me and I will take care of it personally. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message