From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jun 7 13:58:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mother.vastrightwingconspiracy.gov (ppp19.internexus.net [206.152.14.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107C414E1E for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 13:58:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cliff@cliffsworld.com) Received: from cliffsworld.com (localhost.vastrightwingconspiracy.gov [127.0.0.1]) by mother.vastrightwingconspiracy.gov (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA72645 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:02:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cliff@cliffsworld.com) Message-ID: <375C335A.2D0AA07B@cliffsworld.com> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 17:02:18 -0400 From: cliff ainsworth III Reply-To: freebsd@cliffsworld.com Organization: cliffsworld media X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Fwd: BSD Community Welcomes Apple's New Open Source Operating System] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------A881793F0B9E9DED3FB55E38" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------A881793F0B9E9DED3FB55E38 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------A881793F0B9E9DED3FB55E38 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Delivered-To: compat@internexus.net Received: (qmail 13955 invoked from network); 7 Jun 1999 19:53:27 -0000 Received: from redmail.netbsd.org (HELO mail.netbsd.org) (155.53.200.193) by internexus.net with SMTP; 7 Jun 1999 19:53:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 3226 invoked by uid 605); 7 Jun 1999 19:49:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 3220 invoked from network); 7 Jun 1999 19:49:39 -0000 Received: from lager.beer.org (HELO beer.org) (199.166.37.16) by redmail.netbsd.org with SMTP; 7 Jun 1999 19:49:39 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by beer.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21983 for netbsd-announce@netbsd.org; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 13:49:36 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 3144 invoked from network); 7 Jun 1999 19:47:57 -0000 Received: from lager.beer.org (HELO beer.org) (199.166.37.16) by redmail.netbsd.org with SMTP; 7 Jun 1999 19:47:57 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beer.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA21941 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 13:47:53 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199906071947.NAA21941@beer.org> X-Authentication-Warning: lager.beer.org: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: netbsd-announce@netbsd.org Subject: BSD Community Welcomes Apple's New Open Source Operating System From: Herb Peyerl MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <21937.928784872.1@lager> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 13:47:52 -0600 Sender: netbsd-announce-owner@netbsd.org Precedence: list Delivered-To: netbsd-announce@netbsd.org X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 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 --------------A881793F0B9E9DED3FB55E38-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message