Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 08:52:02 -0500 From: John Grimes <jegjr@erols.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Didier Derny <didier@omnix.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead ? Message-ID: <00031109145000.25510@deinonychus.erols.com> In-Reply-To: <38C93D6C.38B24702@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000310105527.20209A-100000@omnix.net> <38C93D6C.38B24702@softweyr.com>
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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? >If > you're really concerned, you have just as much right to the code as any > one else, feel free to take the 4.0 code base and create your own system. > BSDidier has a nice ring to it. > > Personally, I've been running FreeBSD since 1.0, and I'll be sticking > with it for quite some time to come. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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