FreeBSD Changes Hands Again

wackysootroom writes: "On January 14th, Wind River Systems, Inc. agreed to transfer its sponsorship of FreeBSD to FreeBSD Mall, Inc. This should be a good thing, since general pessimism abounded when Wind River took over Walnut Creek's BSD sponsorship. Here is the full story." There's also a story on news.com. We published a note about this in the BSD section but it deserves front-page treatment.

Comments

hmmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

Shouldn't the topic of the story say 'FreeBSD changes Pitchforks again?'

Press Release

[Anonymous Coward]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
15 JANUARY 2002

Effective tomorrow, 16 January 2002, FreeBSD Mall will be transferring its sponsorship of the FreeBSD operating system to blairwitchproject.com. We don't anticipate that the end-user of FreeBSD will notice any of these sponsorship changes, due to FreeBSD's distributed development system.

FreeBSD must be very cheap ;-D

[sinserve]

Remember how the HP-compaq acquistion shook us for
days? I personally couldn't beleive it.

Now, for FreeBSD to go from hand to hand, that easily,
and to end up at fbsdmall (of all the arms out there.)
I think the dollar value of fbsd is somewhere around
1200 dollars.
If I sell my 89 VW Fox, I might own FBSD (AYFBSDABTU)

Before you flame, I am posting this from a 4.1 stable, Ok.

Stickers?

[helixblue]

Does this mean we can finally buy stickers again? I've been waiting for freebsdmall.com to open again so I can buy some stickers.

Hell, I'll buy 4.5 if it comes with the stickers like the previous versions.

Wind River Passes the Pitchfork

[yerricde]

Shouldn't the topic of the story say 'FreeBSD changes Pitchforks again?'

More like "Wind River Passes the FreeBSD Pitchfork" in the Olympic® tradition.