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Wind River CEO Unexpectedly Resigns

Posted by Hemos on from the going-on-with-bidness dept.

The Finn writes "According to Electronics Weekly Wind River CEO Tom St. Dennis resigned today and left Wind River. For those who forgot, Wind River assumed stewardship of FreeBSD as part of the BSDi acquisition in May 2001, and subsequently Cut it loose in January 2002, and it still sells BSD /OS 5.0. I'll avoid the speculation of BSD dying, but Wind River may not be looking so good."

2 of 71 comments (clear)

  1. WindRiver are not related to the FreeBSD project. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    WindRiver never, ever had any involvment with the FreeBSD project. What they bought was the FreeBSD merchanidise business that originally had been started by Walnut Creek and was subsequently owned by BSDi. WindRiver subsquently sold the FreeBSD merchanidise part of the aquisition to FreeBSD Mall who are still selling FreeBSD merchandise. What happens to WindRiver is of no relevance to FreeBSD in the slightest, and they had nothing to do with the project itself at any time, they just bought out one of the many FreeBSD merchandise comapanies that exist.

  2. Re:WindRiver are not related to the FreeBSD projec by DES · · Score: 5, Informative
    WindRiver never, ever had any involvment with the FreeBSD project.

    BSDI had several full-time FreeBSD developers on their payroll when WindRiver acquired them.