On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:13:15 -0500 (CDT), Adam Maloney <adam at whee.org> wrote:
> Good, I've got a bone to pick reguarding BSD/OS :)
> 
> I would definately be interested.  And although not directly linux
> related, I would be interested in hearing his take on their involvement in
> FreeBSD, and their decision to EOL BSD/OS.  Which actually may be of
> interest to others, since it's a story of a corporation sponsoring an
> open-source product.
> 
> Especially because in their phone conference with BSDI customers after the
> merger, they were assuring everyone that they were 100% behind BSD/OS and
> the ISS product.  (Maybe they meant Int'l Space Station, and not Internet
> Super Server...)

I'll pass that on. I actually chatted with one of Paul's coworkers
about the BSD/OS EOL stuff, but I didn't know much about it at the
time, so I can't really recall/contribute much on that front. Paul,
I'm sure, can.

> I would also be interested in hearing about their involvement with
> NASA/JPL engineers during the Pathfinder threading problems.  IIRC, it was
> running VxWorks.

I'm sure this will come up as well.

John

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