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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:01:13 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mercenary coding (Re: Is there a header conflict?)
Message-ID:  <xzpist2rdkm.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030424174556.jhb@FreeBSD.org> (John Baldwin's message of "Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:45:56 -0400 (EDT)")
References:  <XFMail.20030424174556.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> No, they were initialliy acquired by WRS along with the other software
> assets of BSDi.  Only the hardware portion of BSDi was split off at the
> acquisition.  Later the FreeBSD side of BSDi at WRS was laid off and the
> FreeBSD CDROM production and web store were bought by the original owner
> of Walnut Creek CDROM.  Hence the confusion.  My best guess is that WRS
> still holds the FreeBSD trademark.

According to the USPTO's online search engine, it is still registered
to WC, which is "suspended" - but I imagine that WRS hold all the
shares.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org



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