Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 17:39:37 -0500 From: Arthur Kelly <arthur@sevenkings.net> To: hemos <hemos@slashdot.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/BSDI Merger Message-ID: <l343cssm89cq5sm19hc53n0sg2vdlm35gi@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003041724490.5405-100000@ralph.blockstackers.com> References: <200003042213.OAA08571@implode.root.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003041724490.5405-100000@ralph.blockstackers.com>
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On Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:31:53 -0500 (EST), hemos <hemos@slashdot.org> wrote: >> FreeBSD is an independant open-source project and can't really = merge with >> BSDI in the corporate sense. WC CDROM and BSDI, however, have been in = merger >> talks. I'm not at liberty to discuss what I know about this and = suggest that >> you ask the people more directly involved such as Bob Bruce = <rab@cdrom.com>, >> the President of Walnut Creek CDROM. >>=20 >> -DG > > Thanks to all those who e-mailed me - I'm ok from here. Then >notion of FreeBSD and BSDI merging seemed an odd event, and thank you = for >confirming my suspicions. He did _not_ say the code or features won't merge though. Since Walnut Creek provides much of the funding for FreeBSD development, it seems that David simply deflected further questions. I expect many people would like to see a merger of the best features from both. What would be the point of merging without having that as an objective? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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