Hi Chris,
It sounds like it's a complicated situation. As for if things don't go your way,
I say that the slack team should start your own company. If that were to happen,
I'd be interested in being part of it.
-Octave
>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:04:14 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com>
>To: "Arnaud S . Launay" <asl@launay.org>
>cc: Slackware Alpha Development <slackware-alphadevel@slackware.com>
>Subject: Re: [slackware-alphadevel] What happend to....
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>> > Well, I'm sure you've heard about all the recent BSDi events. The rsync
>> > server that we were using was corporate property. So it's now owned by
>> > Wind River. And we're not a part of Wind River, so we nuked the hard
>> > drive.
>>
>> Sorry to ask that, but... what will be the consequences for
>> SlackWare ? I mean, we have had an announcement for FreeBSD
>> meaning in short "no changes", but for slackware, I haven't seen
>> any info. Chris, something to eat ? Give us a bone :)
>
>We're still working on what the consequences for Slackware are. Right
>now, there's lots of details to sort out regarding Wind River and
>iXsystems (aka the "new" BSDi). I don't really know too much about this
>whole situation right now. It's still sort of unfolding around us.
>
>Hopefully, we will continue to keep working on Slackware, making releases,
>getting paid for it, etc. That's definately our plan. Hopefully, I will
>know more about it soon.
>
>--
>Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
>@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
>print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";
>
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