The FreeBSD Foundation

Ian Moore imoore at picknowl.com.au
Thu Dec 23 23:53:38 PST 2004


On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:37, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jay Moore [mailto:jaymo at cromagnon.cullmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:32 PM
> > To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Foundation
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes - I buy from FreeBSD mall which I thought was run by Walnut
> > Creek. I've
> > had this subscription since 3.0 or 3.1... the cd's keep coming.
> > I'd say if
> > the new owners aren't giving the project the same cut as the
> > previous owners,
> > then maybe consider doing something else???
>
> The story here actually begins back in 1978 when 1BSD was created by
> UCB's CSRG as a fork of UNIX6.  The BSD project continued at UCB for
<snip>

Wow, that was a great bit of history, Ted. I love reading about the history of 
FreeBSD & unix, almost as much as I love using FreeBSD!

Cheers,
-- 
Ian

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