CNET News.com's Stephen Shankland reports that Wind River Systems is selling off its assets related to FreeBSD, an open-source version of Unix. Shankland writes . . .

“Bob Bruce, founder of Walnut Creek CDROM — the company that in 1993 first published FreeBSD — will once again be in charge of the core FreeBSD business. That's because the current owner, Wind River Systems, announced Monday that it is selling off its assets related to FreeBSD, an open-source version of Unix.”

“Bruce has also become CEO of FreeBSD Mall, the new name of Walnut Creek CDROM and one of the FreeBSD assets that Wind River has owned.”

“Wind River, an embedded operating-system developer based in Alameda, Calif., bought many FreeBSD assets in April, including FreeBSD Mall itself. Wind River subsequently decided in October to sell its FreeBSD assets . . .”

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