Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:20:35 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: jegjr@erols.com Cc: Didier Derny <didier@omnix.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead ? Message-ID: <38CAD4C3.A51B6FFB@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000310105527.20209A-100000@omnix.net> <38C93D6C.38B24702@softweyr.com> <00031109145000.25510@deinonychus.erols.com>
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John Grimes wrote:
>
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Wes Peters wrote:
> > Didier Derny wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've just read the announcement of the merge of BSDI and Walnut Creek
> > > CDROM. (March 10 2000).
> > >
> > > I guess it's a sad day for FreeBSD. I can't imagine how a company selling
> > > it's own BSD could at the same time let another BSD free.
> > >
> > > Has the FreeBSD project become the test-bed for BSDI ? or
> > > the single user evaluation of BSDI...
> >
> > Apparently you didn't read all of the press release. The BSDI technology
> > will be folded into FreeBSD, which will remain free and open. What this
> > really means is that there will be several more people paid to work on
> > FreeBSD full time, and to bring exciting new technologies to FreeBSD 5.0.
> > There will also be a professional support organization that can offer
> > support contracts for FreeBSD if you wish to purchase one.
> >
> > I fail to see how you can read anything bad into this announcement.
>
> I don't entirely agree with the statement above. I would like to mention a
> point to ponder. In the 13th paragraph of the announcement on the
> 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 means they will continue to sell CD-ROM packages, and perhaps
DVD-ROM packages in the future. They will also continue to publish
books and manuals, and perhaps even printed man page sets, as demand
warrants.
BSDI cannot prevent people from downloading FreeBSD over the net, they
DON'T OWN FREEBSD! They will continue to provide FTP and HTTP servers
for the free distribution and maintenance of FreeBSD, and if you really
want to see it continue to succeed you will keep buying CD-ROM sets,
buttons and stickers, and other goods that help promote FreeBSD and
fund its ongoing development.
None of this is changing, so please stop trying to invent a conspiracy
where none exists.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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