Mercenary coding (Re: Is there a header conflict?)

Dag-Erling Smorgrav des at ofug.org
Fri Apr 25 05:01:18 PDT 2003


John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> No, they were initialliy acquired by WRS along with the other software
> assets of BSDi.  Only the hardware portion of BSDi was split off at the
> acquisition.  Later the FreeBSD side of BSDi at WRS was laid off and the
> FreeBSD CDROM production and web store were bought by the original owner
> of Walnut Creek CDROM.  Hence the confusion.  My best guess is that WRS
> still holds the FreeBSD trademark.

According to the USPTO's online search engine, it is still registered
to WC, which is "suspended" - but I imagine that WRS hold all the
shares.

DES
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