Berkely Software Design Inc. was a corporation which developed, sold licences to, and supported BSDi, a commercial and partially proprietary variant of the BSDoperating system. It was founded by former members of the Computer Sciences Research Group at Berkeley, and the name was chosen for its similarity to "Berkeley Software Distribution" the source of its primary product. It contributed code and resources back to the open source BSD community.
In 2000, the company merged with Walnut Creek CDROM, a distributor of CD content, and later with Telenet systems. In 2001, it sold it's software engineering activities to Wind River Systems and renamed itself iXsystems, with plans to specialize in hardware. iXsystems' server business was acquired in 2002 by Offmyserver.
I would claim that softwaredesign needs to be recognized as a profession in its own right, a disciplinary peer to computer science and software engineering, a first-class member of the family of computing disciplines.
Prospective softwaredesigners must also master the existing research in the field of human–computer interaction and social science research on the use of the computer in the workplace and in organizations.
Softwaredesigners need to make a systematic study and comparison of different media—print, audiovisual, and digital—examining their properties and affordances with a critical eye to how these properties shape and constrain the artifacts realized in them.
While BSD itself was largely superseded by the System V Release 4 and OSF/1 systems in the 1990s (both of which incorporated BSD code), in recent years modified open source versions of the codebase (mostly derived from 4.4BSD-Lite) have seen increasing use and development.
Net/2 was the basis for two separate ports of BSD to the Intel 80386 architecture: the free 386BSD by William Jolitz and the proprietary BSD/386 (later renamed BSD/OS) by BerkeleySoftwareDesign (BSDi).
The lawsuit slowed development of the free-software descendants of BSD for nearly two years while their legal status was in question, and as a result systems based on the Linux kernel, which did not have such legal ambiguity, gained greater support.
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