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Date:      Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:43:28 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD CD 4.4 CDROM subscriptions - who's doing what?
Message-ID:  <20011011214328.A50120@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200110120341.f9C3f0b68334@whizzo.transsys.com>; from louie@TransSys.COM on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:41:00PM -0400
References:  <200110120341.f9C3f0b68334@whizzo.transsys.com>

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:41:00PM -0400, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
>=20
> So I heard that Windriver was bailing on it's participation in the
> FreeBSD project, and well, OK.  I was wondering what was to become
> of the CDROM subscription I previously had.

4.4 is apparently going to be the last release they produce.

> Imagine my surprise when I get this email from bsdcentral.com telling
> me that my credit card transaction didn't go though (because the
> card expired last month).  How on earth did these people get my
> credit card number, I wonder?  Did Windriver sell this publishing
> business to bsdcentral.com, and did I miss the announcement?  Even
> in the case where they did, it's not at all clear that they
> should have transferred that sort of data as part of the process.

Can't speak to this except to say that bsdcentral took over the
operation of freebsdmall, which was the BSDi site which sold their CD
distributions.

> And then I see the mail on freebsd-announce about daemon news
> wanting to pick up and offer CD distributions.
>=20
> Huh, says I.

Yes, they're a separate business.  You probably want to switch to them
since WindRiver aren't planning to produce/sell anything after 4.4.

Kris

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