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To: Prognosticator who wrote (9440)	4/4/2001 7:19:06 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Respond to of 10309

It certainly seems to be a reaction to the embedded Linux threat, and the fact that WIND appears to have felt it necessary to take this step only strengthens the credibility of that threat. I hope to catch the conference rebroadcast later tonight to learn more.

To: Prognosticator who wrote (9440)	4/4/2001 8:22:12 PM
From: Prognosticator	Respond to of 10309

Well, listening to the conference call replay, it's starting to make a bit more sense. FreeBSD has 2 million users (not as many as Linux, but not bad). It has a license which is not GPL (Linux is GPL. Three reasons stated by Jerry Fiddler: o great technology (BSD underpins most commercial Unices) o great open-source community o Intellectual Property. Customers can build applications without fear of losing control of their IP. This is actually a very important issue, and may well make it a better acquisition than a Linux deriviative because of this. Time will tell, I guess. P.