Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:08:03 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Didier Derny <didier@omnix.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead ? Message-ID: <200003101908.LAA25425@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:44:32 EST." <200003101849.NAA12916@etinc.com>
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>>I fail to see how you can read anything bad into this announcement. If >>you're really concerned, you have just as much right to the code as any >>one else, feel free to take the 4.0 code base and create your own system. >>BSDidier has a nice ring to it. >> >>Personally, I've been running FreeBSD since 1.0, and I'll be sticking >>with it for quite some time to come. > >Ever read Animal Farm? Remember that BSD/OS started out as "cheap with >source" and grew into "just another OS company". Good ideas can turn bad >very quickly. The is all just FUD. From the FreeBSD side of things, BSDI is going to opensource a bunch of their software that we can then integrate into FreeBSD. We're still very much in control of the FreeBSD development effort and what fundamentally comprises FreeBSD. In fact nothing really changes as far as the FreeBSD Project is concerned - it's the same core team, the same developers, and the same BSD-license source code. It's just as "free" as ever, and nothing is going to change that. BSDI may decide not to make all of their BSD/OS open-sourced, but that's their decision and that will in no way deminish what we have in FreeBSD today. As others have said, this is a win for everyone and will result in FreeBSD being a much better open-source OS in the future. I really hope that people will go and read the various press releases and look at this in an objective and rational frame of mind. If you do, then there is only one conclusion that you can get from the facts: This is a great thing for FreeBSD and our future couldn't be brighter. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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