From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 18 10:36:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 159D337B422; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:35:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA1BE3; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:40:53 -0700 Message-ID: <3ADDD05A.9F2BB640@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:35:22 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > > Windriver's actions had nothing at all to do with licensing, but a lot > > to do with casting fear, uncertaintly and doubt upon their Linux > > competitors. > > No, that is incorrect. WindRiver (not WinDriver or Windriver ) does plan > on using at least some FreeBSD technologies in some shape or another. But they do not need to buy BSDi in order to use FreeBSD. From my layman reading of the BSD license, you are not required to buy any company in order to use, distribute, modify or profit from FreeBSD. On the other hand, buying BSDi gives you rights to BSD/OS, which is not under the BSD license. WindRiver spent a lot of words talking about why the BSD license allows them to use FreeBSD, but extremely few words on what that had to do with them buying BSDi. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message