From grog@lemis.com Mon Apr 9 19:46:20 2001 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:16:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: announce@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD Core Team statement on Wind River acquisition Message-ID: <20010410121609.A11588@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF The FreeBSD Core Team welcomes the attention that the press has given to Wind River Systems' acquisition of the software assets of Berkeley Software Design Inc. The FreeBSD project looks forward to a long and fruitful collaboration with Wind River Systems. Unfortunately, a couple of points in some reports are inaccurate or misleading. The FreeBSD Core Team would like to clarify: Wind River Systems has generously agreed to sponsor the FreeBSD Project, as Berkeley Software Design had previously done, but it has not ``acquired'' the project nor the operating system. FreeBSD is a free software (``open source'') project, which by its nature cannot be ``acquired''. The direction of the FreeBSD project is determined only by its developers. This correction relates only to certain incorrect reports, and is by no means a reflection on Wind River Systems' intentions or the relationship between Wind River Systems and the FreeBSD project. In addition, some reports speak of ``Jason Hubbard''. The correct name is Jordan Hubbard. The FreeBSD Core Team: Satoshi Asami David Greenman Jordan K. Hubbard Greg Lehey Warner Losh Doug Rabson Mike Smith Robert Watson Peter Wemm -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message