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FreeBSD Goes Home
ChrisKnight writes: "According to this article FreeBSD is returning to Walnut Creek. Cool. They never screwed up my subscription, unlike Wind River." The article briefly traces the complicated ownership history of the FreeBSD name, too.
OK, breathe deeply. Let it out. aaaaaahhhhhhhhh. The sound of many happy users. I'm very glad FreeBSD is returning to Walnut Creek. That's where it simply belongs.
--- Think of it as evolution in action ---
there's another interesting timeline of all the BSDs here. What a long strange trip it's been!
They were a very thoughtful company when it regards to providing information on their regular commercial OSes (they've also bought pSOS along the way) but I never saw this attention paid to FreeBSD.
I think they were being a bit overenthusiastic and optimistic in buying the FreeBSD business when all they knew they wanted was BSD/OS.
Glad to see at least the FreeBSD foundation is back in familiar, caring hands.
Gladly this doesn't affect the release of 4.5-- I've been using it since 4.1 and it keeps getting better and better. The fact that 5.0 was delayed, forcing more work on 4.x branches, means that FreeBSD 4.x could be the most refined Free *nix ever.
It is now official - C/Net has confirmed: *BSD is alive and thriving
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered AC crowd when C/Net reported that FreeBSD is going home. Wind River and FreeBSD Mall Inc. published a joint press-release today announcing the sale of Wind River's FreeBSD assets to Bob Bruce, founder of Walnut Creek CDROM--the company that in 1993 first published FreeBSD. This was the company that almost a decade ago declared to the world that *BSD is alive and thriving!
The FreeBSD Mall web site has been redesigned, with many new products, including FreeBSD CDs, books, polo shirts, microfiber jackets, boxer shorts, bumper stickers, lapel pins, several different styles of t-shirts, mouse pads, travel mugs, buttons, sticker sheets, plate logos, denim shirts, CD cases, and paid support options.
FreeBSD and its close relatives NetBSD and OpenBSD all are open-source projects, meaning that anyone can see, change and distribute the underlying source code.
With the main FreeBSD distribution back in the hands of the record holding Free Software distributor Bob Bruce, trolls posting that *BSD is dead had better keep the "anonymous" in "anonymous coward."
Fact: *BSD is alive and thriving!
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
your treetops so tall
FreeBSD, FreeBSD, FreeBSD
FreeBSD has it all
now maybe the FreeBSDMall will send me the Right T-Shirt in the Right Size!!
the one I had shipped over for christmas is like a night shirt Oliver Hardy might've worn!!
I know I don't get out my seat much, but I think my 50" waist is a farther away than 5.0-STABLE
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Funny. I think Yahoo! still uses freebsd for their web servers. Hmmm... also... OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD are NOT 'for profit corporations out for market share' So long as those hackers keep hacking on the *BSDs, they will never be "DYING" and will therefore never die.
FACT: You don't understand what BSD is about.
ZERO ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ONE! Just brushing up for my next big invention: Ethernet over Voice (EoV)
I screwed up my moderation, so I'm posting to undo it ...
How many FreeBSD developers are part of this hot potato? It doesn't appear to have affected product quality, but too frequent corporate changes do have a negative effect on resources. Funny how some projects can be more stable in part because no two people work on it full-time for the same company.