[FUGSPBR] futuro do bsd

[Edson Brandi]

Eh tava demorando ... mundo capitalista do inferno ...
Edson

At 09:51 AM 10/5/01 -0300, you wrote:
>Senhores,
>
>vindo do slashdot
>
>
>Wind River lays off FreeBSD developers; Q&A Posted by
>         Nik     on Friday October 05, @03:32AM
>
>from the been-here-before dept.
>SidVicious and Intosi both wrote in with news that Wind River Systems
>(WRS), who had acquired BSDi's software assets earlier this year,
>including a team of FreeBSD developers, has laid off those developers.
>This has also been reported in other places, such as DaemonNews.
>This raises some interesting questions; for example, what happens to the
>"FreeBSD" trademark, which Wind River currently own.  Read on for Wind
>River's answers to this and other questions.
>
>In the interests of full disclosure.  I'm also nik em freebsd.org, although
>not a WRS employee.  I was employed by BSDi in Europe, before the
>European team were laid off as part of the WRS acquisition.  These
>questions were answered by WindRiver's PR department.
>Q: WRS has already been through two rounds of layoffs in the recent
>past.  Why this third set of lay offs now?  Are the FreeBSD developers
>the only ones affected?
>Wind River has only had two rounds of layoffs. During the second
>round Wind River decided to divest itself of the FreeBSD project. We
>spent several weeks looking for a suitable corporate sponsor but did not
>find any company with sufficient interest and financial capability in
>this challenging economy. This week's layoff of the FreeBSD employees is
>therefore Wind River's "final option" in executing the plans set in
>motion by the second round of layoffs.
>Q: WRS currently own the trademark "FreeBSD".  Do WRS plan to retain the
>trademark?  If so, why?  If not, will WRS let the trademark lapse?  Or
>are there plans to transfer it to a third party, such as the FreeBSD
>Foundation?
>Wind River plans to ensure continuation of the altruistic, open
>stewardship of the FreeBSD trademark. We feel strongly that the FreeBSD
>project must be protected and encouraged and that a FreeBSD trademark in
>the wrong hands could be very detrimental. We continue to search for the
>best solution. No specific third-party has yet been determined, but
>transfer to a
>suitable third-party is the leading option being considered.
>Q: WRS own the "bsd.com" domain. Will that be retained?
>Possibly. Wind River will continue to invest in BSD/OS and
>participate as a highly interested member of the *BSD community. As
>such, the bsd.com domain may be important for Wind River. We are
>weighing this against the needs of the *BSD community and hope to
>resolve the issue later this month.
>Q: What's happening to the "FreeBSD Mall", at freebsdmall.com?
>freebsdmall.com continues to operate and take orders, and all new
>and existing orders from customers for FreeBSD 4.4 or other products
>will continue to be fulfilled. Wind River is still evaluating its long
>term options and strategy for the FreeBSD Mall, but plans to maintain
>its presence and service either internally or externally.
>Q: As part of the BSDi acquisition, WRS will (presumably) have picked up
>customers who had subscribed to the BSDi CD sets of FreeBSD. Will WRS
>continue to service those customers, or are their subscriptions now
>cancelled?
>Like all customer contracts, subscription orders will continue to be
>fulfilled.
>Q: BSDi (and, it seemed, WRS) had made some headway in producing
>additional FreeBSD boxed products to go in to the retail channel. Will
>WRS
>continue to do this?
>Wind River is currently continuing activities to promote FreeBSD 4.4
>through the retail channel. Future FreeBSD releases will probably not be
>produced or distributed by Wind River.
>Q: Will WRS continue to produce the usual 4 disc CD sets of FreeBSD,
>including one for the recently released FreeBSD 4.4?
>Yes, for FreeBSD 4.4.
>Q: WRS had been funding work on the FreeBSD Handbook, in order to print
>the second edition in the near future. [ Disclaimer, I'm co-editor of
>this
>work, along with your employee, Murray Stokely ] Will WRS continue with
>plans to print the second edition of the FreeBSD Handbook?
>Wind River will encourage any stewards that emerge to take on FreeBSD
>publication to complete and publish this work.
>Q: WRS houses the "FreeBSD Test Lab" at its Alameda campus. Will WRS
>continue to host this facility?
>No. Some equipment from this lab will be transferred to Yahoo! which
>hosts much of the build structure equipment for FreeBSD, as well as the
>primary CVS source repository and main FreeBSD mail server. Wind River
>does not plan to maintain the FreeBSD test lab at its Alameda, CA
>headquarters.
>
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