Wind River To Stop Selling BSD/OS

David writes "According to an article on Bsdnewsletter.com, OS company Wind River has said it will be stopping sales of BSD/OS on this December 31st, and product support exactly one year thereafter. Only 15 more weeks to grab the final 5.1 update before this piece of history might be gone forever..."

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Completely wrong.

[AntiBasic]

Completely wrong. It was more than a year ago when WindRiver took over BSDi. And BSD/OS was a pretty bigtime product many, many years ago. Microsoft used it extensively before it ate its own dogfood with NT. Initially, BSDI's product was called BSD/386; not to be confused with 386/BSD. I have no idea why this was moderated-up. Oh wait, its simple-minded, infantile, liberal Linux zealots with no concern for accuracy.

Re:It's important to keep perspective here

[k8to]

Well, I'd say the BSD camp was never too hostile to commercialization of BSD code in the manner employed by BSDI. If you hate proprieterization of free code, you'll probably gravitate to some other project.

No, the reason that Free/Net/OpenBSD people tended to dislike BSDI was because of the vastly unimpressive management of the sourcebase that they got from 4.4BSD. Improvements appeared in only a few key areas (such as the threaded network stack), with the rest vast majority of the system left fairly bereft in a way that would make a default solaris install feel like a breath of fresh air.