Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:22:36 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Didier Derny <didier@omnix.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead ? Message-ID: <38C93D6C.38B24702@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000310105527.20209A-100000@omnix.net>
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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. 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/
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