Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 03:07:48 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: corporate backers of freebsd Message-ID: <20080101010748.GA99836@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20071231175805.Y20718@wonkity.com> <47798FF0.4080304@freebsd.org> References: <10f7864f0712311010x2497409ava350991ccebf3ae2@mail.gmail.com> <200712312314.42749.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <20080101003040.GB2507@kobe.laptop> <20071231175805.Y20718@wonkity.com> <10f7864f0712311010x2497409ava350991ccebf3ae2@mail.gmail.com> <200712312314.42749.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <20080101003040.GB2507@kobe.laptop> <47798FF0.4080304@freebsd.org>
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On 2007-12-31 16:57, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Yes, Gary, there are companies who also fund FreeBSD work in several > > ways [...] Some examples which I recall off the top of my head are: > > Don't forget pair Networks, which has generously supported phk, andre, > and myself on our respective "sponsored FreeBSD coding" fundraising > drives of 2004, 2005, and 2006, with slightly over $40,000 in total. I knew I was forgetting something. Thanks for the addition :-) On 2007-12-31 18:00, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> The support of Isilon Systems for VFS locking, which was then 'ported' >> back to FreeBSD. Jeff Roberson worked with Isilon Systems to bring >> VFS locking to FreeBSD, and it is not part of the official kernel > ^^^ >> source tree. > > Probably s/not/now/ ... That is true. The VFS locking code *is* part of the source tree. Unfortunately, spell-checking the original text couldn't really warn me about this. Thanks for this correction too :)
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