[FUGSPBR] futuro do bsd

Sex Out 5 12:15:52 BRT 2001

Ao prejudicar o FreeBSD a Wind River não dará mais mercado ao BSD/OS. Quem
sairá ganhando é o Linux, seu principal concorrente.

É mais uma empresa que dá um tiro no pé em nome do capitalismo.

Jaime Galle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edson Brandi" <e.brandi em uol.com.br>
To: <fugspbr em fugspbr.org>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: [FUGSPBR] futuro do bsd

> 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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