Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:08:11 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> To: dwilde1@thuntek.net, www@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: bill@cdrom.com, webbies@advocacy.freebsd.org, Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: press release Message-ID: <19990608000811.15392@panke.de.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <375C0556.C398A0BF@thuntek.net>; from Donald Wilde on Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 11:45:58AM -0600 References: <375C0556.C398A0BF@thuntek.net>
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On 1999-06-07 11:45:58 -0600, Donald Wilde wrote: > Wolfram, here's a new press release we put out. I'm not sure who's still > working on advocacy.freebsd.org, so I'm sending this to you. Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG> is the FreeBSD 'In the Press Editor'. Wolfram > Bill, you're cc'd in case you have access. > -- > Don Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" > Wilde Media > 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 > Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net > NEWS RELEASE > > BSD Community Welcomes Apple's New Open Source Operating System > > Concord, CA, June 7, 1999: Today, at the start of the UNIX development > community's annual Usenix convention, operating system influentials > embraced Apple Computer's Darwin (www.apple.com/darwin) as a new > member of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) operating system > family. > > "We're very pleased to have Apple's participation in the BSD > community," said Jordan Hubbard, chairman of the USENIX convention's > Freenix track and co-founder of the FreeBSD Project. "As more smart > businesses discover the incredible free resource that is BSD software, > they'll realize that contributing to open source development is in > their best interest." > > According to Herb Peyerl of the NetBSD Project, "Our interaction with > Apple on the Darwin project has been extremely rewarding for NetBSD > and is the kind of open cooperation of which we would like to see > more." > > "Leveraging the twenty-year BSD heritage allows Apple developers to > concentrate on adding a unique user experience to the solid, robust > foundation of the BSD code," according to Avie Tevanian, Apple > Computer's senior vice president of Software Engineering. "We believe > that by embracing the open source movement with our Darwin software, > the result will be better products for millions of Mac customers > worldwide. The BSD code in Darwin is an essential part of our > operating system strategy." > > This type of reciprocation is a return to the original software > development model that was universal in the early days of computing, > before PCs. Wilfredo Sanchez, technical lead for the Darwin Project, > will speak on Darwin at this week's Freenix track, a series of > programs at Usenix devoted exclusively to this sort of open source > software development. > > About NetBSD and FreeBSD > > NetBSD and FreeBSD are open source operating systems based on the last > public release of BSD UNIX, 4.4BSDLite2. Each effort has kept up with > the latest technologies in processors and software > architectures. While having different priorities, the BSD development > teams share a friendly competitive rivalry, spurring each other on to > produce better product for their worldwide users. Over the twenty > years of development, a huge base of software has been developed > around BSD -- including much of the Internet infrastructure -- > enabling the OS to be used effectively in almost any computing > application. The open development model means there are no secrets, > creating a worldwide understanding of the code which enables BSD > developers to build on the efforts of prior developers without the > hassles endemic to proprietary operating systems and applications. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > For More Information, Contact: > > The FreeBSD Project > Concord, California > 925-682-7859 > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > http://www.freebsd.org > > > The NetBSD Project > C/O Charles M. Hannum > 81 Bromfield Rd, #2 > Somerville, MA 02144 > mindshare@netbsd.org > http://www.netbsd.org -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message
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