Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:38:24 +0000 From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Jay Nelson <noslenj@swbell.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Message-ID: <38D637E0.B9ABBBBB@originative.co.uk> References: <200003171545.IAA16366@usr06.primenet.com> <xzpityif484.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes: > > The point is that, if a driver already exists in BSDI, and FreeBSD > > becomes the public shadow of the BSDI source tree, there is very > > little incentive to write a new driver among volunteers, because > > the job has already been done, and there are interesting things to > > write that haven't yet been done. > > Why would FreeBSD become the public shadow of the BSDI source tree? > From what I've read about the merger, the reverse (BSDI becoming the > commercial shadow of FreeBSD) is more likely. > > Let me spell it out for you: BSDI WILL NOT CONTROL FREEBSD. > > Nobody can take arbitrary control of FreeBSD. It's open source. Even > if Jordan, David & co. were to "sell out" to BSDI today, they couldn't > stop committers from finding another place to host the project and > carry on with its development. The worst they can do is stop us from > using the name. Umm, that's more than a little ridiculous. Nobody can stop anyone taking the codebase and lauching another project. If "Jordan, David & co" stop you using the name then what you're doing is setting up a competing project not taking the project somewhere else. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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