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FreeBSD Changes Hands Again

Posted by michael on from the hot-potato dept.

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.

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  1. that's fine and all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...but will the daemon chicks be at the linux world expo this year?

  2. Re:About time by Beautyon · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    You can get FreeBSD rather easily in the UK actually:
    http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/bsd.html#CompleteFr eeBSD

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  3. Help the giFT project! (Sc0re:3,Important shit) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Yeah it's offtopic but the nice editors on /. rejected it so fuck it...

    WE NEED NODES!

    01/14/2002 - I bet you've always wanted to be a node, havn't you? Well, actually we are getting far enough into development where we need people to run giFT so we can test network integrity, organization, etc. Ready to get started?

    giFT is a free alternative to kazaa/morpheus. Stop bitching about Spyware and do something about it!

  4. Sections? by dgenr8 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I didn't know there WERE sections.

  5. Re:*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WOW. That got modded down in less than a minute and a half. Absolutely amazing.

  6. Re:Freebsd problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At least it is on-topic this time!

  7. Excuse me idiot moderator by boltar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But my post wasn't a troll. Unless you're implying I made it up and are calling me a liar.
    Any change of some adults who can actually understand english doing some moderating instead
    of idiot adolescents who just give random scores based on whether mummy shouted at them today?

  8. Re:BSD Sucks by Rostoff · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you suck so nya nya